Seo. Had he been drunk, he had had some excuse. ’Twas past midnight when he burst in, turned us all out of bed, and ordered the house to be pulled down; and I a married man. I have a wife and daughters.
Sce. Married! well, I never knew that. So your house is pulled down.
Seo. And half the street, for that matter.
Qu. ’Twas done to stay the fire: ’twas well done.
Seo. But we were reckoning our danger past: and ’twas so situated, that if he wished to protect his palace he had choice of some four streets: and he chooses mine, and begins with me, my house, Senecio’s house; Senecio his sworn comrade. I have played housebreaker and looker on to him these eight years, and helped to save his life a score of times from injured husbands and common fellows....
Sce. You do not stand with him as you did.
Seo. Nay, nor you.
Qu. And he hath made verses on me, which he will recite in all company when I am present.
Seo. ’Tis that long-nosed cad Vatinius who hath undermined me.
Sce. And all of us. We are put down by a coarse pig.