THEU. Just get up, (beckoning) this way; it's, then, to ask your advice upon something that I want you.
TRA. Still, as I am, I'll give my advice from this spot; my wits are much sharper when I'm sitting {3}. Besides, advice is given with higher sanction from holy places {4}.
THEU. Get up; don't be trifling. Just look me in the face. TRA. (looking at him). I am looking.
THEU. Do you see me? TRA. I do see—that if any third person were to step in here, he would die of hunger.
THEU. Why so? TRA. Because he would get no profit; for, upon my faith, we are both artful ones.
THEU. I'm undone! TRA. What's the matter with you?
THEU. You have deceived me. TRA. How so, pray?
THEU. You've wiped me clean {5}. TRA. Consider, please, if it wasn't well done; is your nose running still?
THEU. Aye, all my brains besides have you been wiping out of my head as well. For all your villanies I have discovered from their very roots; and not from the roots, indeed, i' faith, but even from beneath the very roots. Never this day, by my troth, will you have planned all this without being punished. I shall at once, you villain, order fire and faggots {6} to be placed around you.
TRA. Don't do it; for it's my way to be sweeter boiled than roasted.