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.