Act III, Scene III

Enter PYTHODICUS, from the house of Megadorus.

PYTH. Mind you your business; I'll step in and see what the cooks are doing, to observe whom, i' faith, to-day it is a most laborious task. Unless I manage this one thing, for them to cook the dinner down in the dungeon; thence, when cooked, we might bring it up again in small baskets. But if they should eat below whatever they should cook, those above would go without their dinner, and those below have dined: But here am I chattering, as though I had no business, when there's such a pack of thieves in the house. (Goes into the house.)