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SCENE I.

Enter ANTHRAX from MEGADORUS's house.
(Speaking to some within)
Here, Dromo, scale those fishes,—and do you,
Machærio, split that conger and that lamprey,
As fast as possible,—d'ye hear?—and bone them.—
I'm only stepping to next door to borrow
A baking-pan of Congrio.—See, you pick
That capon clean as a young actor's chin.—
How now? what means this uproar at next door?
The cooks are at it, I suppose. I'll in,
For fear that ours should make the same disturbance.

[Goes in.