And yet by some words himself he did bewray.
Aristippus. I think so in good faith, as you did handle him.
Carisophus. I handled him clerkly, I joined in talk with him courteously:
But when we were entered, I let him speak his will, and I
Suck’d out thus much of his words, that I made him say plainly,
He was come hither to know the state of the city;
And not only this, but that he would understand
The state of Dionysius’ court and of the whole land.
Which words when I heard, I desired him to stay,
Till I had done a little business of the way.