SOSIE, NAUCRATES, POLIDAS, AMPHITRYON
SOS.All I have been able to do, Monsieur, with all my diligence, is to have brought these gentlemen here.
AMPH.Ah! You are here?
SOS.Monsieur.
AMPH.Insolent, bold rascal!
SOS.What?
AMPH.I shall teach you to treat me thus.
SOS.What is it? What is the matter with you?
AMPH.What is the matter with me, villain?
SOS.Hullo, gentlemen, come here quickly.
NAU.Ah! Stay, I beseech you.
SOS.Of what am I guilty?
AMPH.You ask me that, you scoundrel? Let me satisfy my righteous anger.
SOS.When they hang any one, they tell him why they do it.
NAU.At least condescend to tell us what his crime may be.
SOS.I beseech you, gentlemen, keep a tight hold of me.
AMPH.Yes! He has just had the audacity to shut the door in my face, and to add threats to a thousand impudent jeers! Ah! You villain!
SOS.I am dead.
NAU.Restrain this anger.
SOS.Gentlemen.
POL.What is it?
SOS.Has he struck me?
AMPH.No, he must have his reward for the language he has made free to use just now.