See, lady Moon, where my love came from. "If you had let me in, that would have been sweet, for all the young men call me lively and handsome; and I would have slept happy if I had only kissed your lovely mouth. But if you had pushed me away and the door had been barred, axes and torches would surely have come against you.

Delphis keeps talking. If she had let him in, he would have slept happy after one kiss; Cholmeley explains that he would have been sure of her love instead of lying awake. If she had barred the door, he and his friends would have come with axes and torches, the drunken revelers' attack on a locked door that Greek comedy knew well; Cholmeley cites a scene with a torch at the door in Aristophanes' Women at the Assembly. He calls himself ἐλαφρός and καλός, light-hearted and handsome, and says everyone says so.