O Carisophus, my dearest friend, my trusty companion!

What news with you? where have you been so long?

Carisophus. My best beloved friend Aristippus, I am come at last;

I have not spent all my time in waste.

I have got a prey, and that a good one, I trow.

Aristippus. What prey is that? fain would I know.

Carisophus. Such a crafty spy I have caught, I dare say,

As never was in Sicilia before this day;

Such a one as viewed every weak place in the city,

Surviewed the haven and each bulwark in talk very witty: