Soc. What, old man?

Strep. I have got a device for cheating them of the
interest.

Soc. Exhibit it.

Strep. Now tell me this, pray; if I were to purchase a
Thessalian witch, and draw down the moon by night, and
then shut it up, as if it were a mirror, in a round
crest-case, and then carefully keep it-

Soc. What good, pray, would this do you?

Strep. What? If the moon were to rise no longer
anywhere, I should not pay the interest.

Soc. Why so, pray?

Strep. Because the money is lent out by the month.

Soc. Capital! But I will again propose to you another
clever question. If a suit of five talents should be
entered against you, tell me how you would obliterate
it.

Strep. How? How? I do not know but I must seek.

Soc. Do not then always revolve your thoughts about
yourself; but slack away your mind into the air, like a