PHILOMUSUS, STUDIOSO, FUROR, PHANTASMA.
PHILOMUSUS.
Who have we there? Ingenioso and Academico?
STUDIOSO.
The very same; who are those? Furor and Phantasma?
[FUROR takes a louse off his sleeve.
FUROR.
And art thou there, six-footed Mercury?
[PHANTASMA, with his hand in his bosom.
Are rhymes become such creepers nowadays?
Presumptuous louse, that doth good manners lack,
Daring to creep upon poet Furor's back!
Multum refert quibuscum vixeris:
Non videmus manticae quod in tergo est.
PHILOMUSUS. What, Furor and Phantasma too, our old college fellows? Let us encounter them all. Ingenioso, Academico, Furor, Phantasma, God save you all.
STUDIOSO.
What, Ingenioso, Academico, Furor, Phantasma, how do you, brave lads?