Too, thank you, namesake mine! Martinus, here!
Take back your mother’s tetradrachm!
Martinus [the Schoolboy].
[Accepting the coin his friend holds out to him.]
Malchus,
I say, that’s fine!
Serapíon [the Sleeper].
My Æsop’s fables must I get by heart! “A nightingale
did sing ... did sing ... did sing....”
Serapíon [the Schoolboy].