Turd. Such as there are in India.
Grac. How do you know! Have you been in India with the Spaniards?
Turd. As if one could know nothing of a district without having been in it! But I will give you my authority. Pliny writes that trees in India grow to such a height that a man cannot shoot a dart over them, and the people there are not to seek in shooting their arrows, as Vergil says.
Nugo. Pliny also says that a company of horsemen could be hidden under the branches.
Turd. No one can wonder at that who considers the rushes of that district, which the infirm people, at any rate the rich, use to support them in walking.
Grac. Eh! what hour is it?
II. The Hour-Bells
Nugo. No hour at all, for the hour-bell is now thrown down to the ground. Haven’t you been to see it?
Grac. I did not dare, for they say that it is dangerous.