Publii Terentii Carthaginiensis Afris poëtae lepidissimi comoediae sex Anglo-Latinae in usum ludi-discipulorum, quo Feliciùs venustatem linguae Latinae ad sermonem quotidianum exercendum assequantur / a Carolo Hoole ... = Six comedies of that excellent poet Publius Terentius, an African of Carthage, in English and Latine : for the use of young scholars, that they may the more readily attain the purity of the Latine tongue for common discourse / by Charles Hoole ...

Act. III. Scen. I.

SOSTRATA. CANTHARA.

S.

I Pray you nurse, what shall be done now?

C.

Do you ask, what shall be done? Well trulie, I hope.

S.

Now, Nurse, her pangs begin of her first child bearing.

C.

Now you fear, as though you were never by at a womans labour, or never bare child your self.

S.

Woe is me poor woman, I have no body, we are all alone, and Geta is not here, [line 5] Nor have I any one to send to the Mid-wife, nor that may call Aeschinus.

C.

Trulie he will be here by and by, for he never letteth one day pass, But he alwaies cometh.

S.

He is the onelie remedie of my miseries.

C.

As the case standeth, It could not be done better, then it is done, mistris: seeing a fault Is committed, which principallie pertains to him, such a one as he is, of such a stock, [line 10] Of such a disposition, born of such a great house.

S.

It is indeed so as you say, I pray God, we may have him safe.

Act. III. Scen. I.

SOSTRATA. CANTHARA.

S.

OBsecro, mea nutrix, quid nunc fiet?

C.

Quid fiet, rogas? R••ctè aedipol, spero.

S.

Modò dolores, mea tu, oc∣cipiunt primulúm.

C.

Jam nunc times, quasi nunquam adfueris, nunquam tute pe∣pereris.

S.

Miseram me, nemin••m habeo, solae sumus, Geta autem hîc non adest: [line 5] Nec quem ad obstetricem mittam, nec qui accersat Aeschi∣num.

C.

Pol is quidē jam hîc aderit; nam nunq•• ā unum intermittit diē, Quin semper veniat.

S.

Solus mearum est miseriarum remedium.

C.

E re natâ, Meliùs fieri haud potuit, quàm factum est, hera; quando vitium Oblatum est, quod ad illum attinet potissimum, talem, tali ge∣nere, [line 10] Tali animo, natum ex tanta familiâ.

S.

Ita pol est, ut dicis, Salvus nobis, Deos quaeso, ut siet.