Nugo. From a boy I have known him intent on business, and to delight in money, and so he has held business in higher esteem than letters, and he has preferred filthy lucre to the excellency of erudition. Some time he will repent it.
Turd. But too late!
Nugo. Without doubt. May he take care that it does not happen to him as it did to his cousin.
Turd. Which?
XIV. Antony the “Cook”
Nugo. Antonius in Fruit Lane, near the Three Jackdaws. Haven’t you heard that in a former year he “cooked”?[36]
Grac. What did he cook, please? Is this so great an evil? Doesn’t it go on in every kitchen daily?
Turd. He “cooked” his accounts (rem decoxit).
Grac. What accounts?
Turd. His business with others, and couldn’t meet his creditors.