LACON.

'Twas Lycon's gift, your highness. But pray, Cometas, say,

What is that skin wherewith thou saidst that Lacon walked away?

Why, thy lord's self had ne'er a skin whereon his limbs to lay.

COMETAS.

The skin that Crocylus gave me, a dark one streaked with white,

The day he slew his she-goat. Why, thou wert ill with spite,

Then, my false friend; and thou would'st end by beggaring me quite.

LACON.

Did Lacon, did Calæthis' son purloin a goatskin? No,