Scene the Ninth.
Pag. 124. l. 1. You needn't beg so heartily, &c.] Peri∣phanes speaks this to the Persons within, whom Epidicus had employ'd to plead for him. If any of our modern Poets had had the management of this Place, they wou'd undoubtedly have brought Stratippocles, Thelestis, Phi∣lippa, and Thesprion on to the Stage; but the Ancients had another tast, and were wonderful careful to avoid any thing that look'd like Confusion, sometimes too scrupulously in this case, as ours too often offend the other way. Therefore a just Medium ought to be ex∣actly observ'd.