Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.

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Title: Plautus's comedies ... made English, with critical remarks upon each play.
Author: Plautus, Titus Maccius.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and T. Child ...,; 1694.
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SCENE. V.

Periphanes alone,

There's nothing like a good Friend always at ones Elbow. Then all your bus'ness is done for ye, with holding up your Finger. Now had I trusted the ma∣nagement o' this bus'ness to a Man o'less skill, and few∣er Brains, I shou'd ha'been finely bob'd, and my Son might well ha'made me his laughing Diversion.—

[Discovering the Rhodian Captain at a Distance]

What silly fellow's yon, who comes tossing and brandishing his Cloak so? But 'tis ridiculous i'me to blame others for a Folly I was so guilty of my self i'my young Days: when I was a Soldier o'Fortune, if I once set in, I us'd to deafen all Ears wi'the Stories o'my great Acts.