Chrem. (apart.) With good reason have I always been averse to this match, it’s clear.
Dav. (calling aloud.) O abominable piece of effrontery!
Mys. Why are you bawling out so?
Dav. (aloud.) What, the very one I saw being carried to your house yesterday evening?
Mys. O you impudent fellow!
Dav. (aloud.) It’s the truth. I saw Canthara stuffed out beneath her clothes.[82]
Mys. I’faith, I thank the Gods that several free women were present[83] at the delivery.
Dav. (aloud.) Assuredly she doesn’t know him, on whose account she resorts to these schemes. Chremes, she fancies, if he sees the child laid before the door, will not give his daughter; i’faith, he’ll give her all the sooner,.
Chrem. (apart.) I’faith, he’ll not do so.
Dav. (aloud.) Now therefore, that you may be quite aware, if you don’t take up the child, I’ll roll it forthwith into the middle of the road; and yourself in the same place I’ll roll over into the mud.