Be silent and attend to me. I do not know this city. I have travelled from far, having somewhat exhausted the city of Ackara.
SLAG
My master was three times knocked down and injured by carriages there, once he was killed and seven times beaten and robbed, and every time he was generously compensated. He had nine diseases, many of them mortal—
AGMAR
Be silent, Slag.—Have you any thieves among the calling here?
ULF
We have a few that we call thieves here, master, but they would scarcely seem thieves to you. They are not good thieves.
AGMAR
I shall need the best thief you have.
[Enter two citizens richly clad, Illanaun and Oorander.