They dare not stay to welcome their deliverers.
Clean. The cowards are afraid of what they wish;
And, could they be their own, they would be ours.
Cleom. They're gone; we talk to houses and to walls.
Panth. Not so; I see some peeping from their doors.—
What are you? friends, or foes?
Four Egyptians appear, peeping from the opposite Entrances of the Stage.
1 Egypt. Friends, friends; all honest men,
And hearty to the cause.
Clean. Explain what cause; and give the general cry.