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SIMON
At any rate it is best to stay awake myself and keep watch. I'll get up from time to time and go all about the whole house. Who is that? I see you, burglar . . . oh! no, you are only a pillar, it is allright. Ill dig up my gold and count it again, for fear I made a mistake yesterday. There, now, somebody made a noise: he’s after me, of course. I am beleaguered and plotted against by all the world. Where is my sword? If I find anyone ... Let us bury the gold again.
COCK
Well, Micyllus, that is the way Simon lives. Let’s o and visit someone else while there is still a little of the night left.
MICYLLUS
Unfortunate man, what a life he leads! I wish my enemies wealth on those terms! Well, I want to hit him over the head before I go.
SIMON
Who hit me? I’m being robbed, unlucky that I am!
MICYLLUS
Groan and lie awake and grow like your gold in colour, cleaving fast to it! Let’s go and see Gnipho the money-lender, if you don’t mind. He too lives not far off. This door has opened to us also.
COCK
Do you see him awake with his worries like the other, computing his interests and wearing his fingers tothe bone? And yet he will soon have to leave all this behind and become a beetle or a gnat or a dogfly.
MICYLLUS
I see an unfortunate, senseless man who even now lives little better than a beetle or a gnat. And how completely run down he is from his computations! Let’s go and see another.
COCK
Your friend Eucrates, if you like. See, this door has opened too, so let’s go in.
MICYLLUS
All this belonged to me a little while ago.
