our first business, therefore, is to destroy him, and then we may be at leisure to fall upon each other the first opportunity.
ANITUS.
'Tis well observed: how I could rejoice now to see this rascally judge upon an altar, his arms hanging on one side and his legs on the other, whilst I with my golden knife was ripping up his guts and consulting his liver at leisure!
MELITUS.
Shall I never be able to send this villainous high priest to jail, and make him swallow a pint of hemlock by my command?
ANITUS.
O my friend, here come our noble assistants. I have taken care to prepare the populace.
MELITUS.
Very well, my dear friend, you may depend upon me in this affair, not forgetting old scores.
SCENE IX.
ANITUS, MELITUS, some of the Judges of Athens passing along under the portico.
DRIXA, TERPANDER, and ACROS together.
Justice, justice, scandal, impiety, justice, justice, irreligion, impiety, justice!
