Dry, covetous, curmudgeon to his father:

Our neighbor here; d’ye know him?—Yet, as if

He did not roll in riches, his poor son

Was forc’d to run away for very want.

D’ye know this story?

Chrem. Do I know it? Aye.

A scoundrel! should be horse-whipp’d.

Syrus. Who?

Chrem. That slave

Of Clinia’s——