HEG. Do you ask the question? You weeder and sower of villanies, and in especial their reaper.
TYND. Ought you not to have ventured to say the harrower first? For countrymen always harrow before they weed.
HEG. Why, with what assurance he stands before me.
TYND. It's proper for a servant, innocent and guiltless, to be full of confidence, most especially before his master.
HEG. (to the SLATES). Bind this fellow's hands tightly, will you.
TYND. I am your own—do you command them to be cut off even. But what is the matter on account of which you blame me?
HEG. Because me and my fortunes, so far as in you singly lay, by your rascally and knavish stratagems you have rent in pieces, and have districted my affairs and spoiled all my resources and my plans, in that you've thus robbed me of Philocrates by your devices. I thought that he was the slave, you the free man. So did you say yourselves, and in this way did you change names between you.
TYND. I confess that all was done so, as you say, and that by a stratagem he has got away from you, through my aid and cleverness; and prithee, now, do you blame me for that, i' faith?
HEG. Why, it has been done with your extreme torture for the consequence.
TYND. So I don't die by reason of my misdeeds, I care but little. If I do die here, then he returns not, as he said he would; but when I'm dead, this act will be remembered to my honor, that I caused my captive master to return from slavery and the foe, a free man, to his father in his native land; and that I preferred rather to expose my own life to peril, than that he should be undone.