For not to speak of all his former pranks,

What has he been about but even now!

Micio. What has he done?

Demea. Burst open doors, and made

His way by force into another’s house;

Half-kill’d the master and his family,

And carried off a wench whom he was fond of.

All Athens cries out shame upon him for it.

I have been told of it a hundred times

Since my arrival. ’Tis the town-talk, Micio.