That one of us help each other in every degree:

Prefer you my cause, when you are in presence,

To further your matters to the king let me alone in your absence.

Aristippus. Friend Carisophus, this shall be done as you would wish:

But I pray you tell me thus much by the way,

Whither now from this place will you take your journey?

Carisophus. I will not dissemble, that were against friendship,

I go into the city some knaves to nip

For talk, with their goods to increase the king’s treasure,

In such kind of service I set my chief pleasure: