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. V. Scene 1.

Chremes, Simo.

Ch.

NOw, Simo, my friendship towards you hath appeared suffici∣ently, I began to undergo danger enough. Now cease your intreating; Whilst I strive to humour you, I have almost befool'd away my daugh∣ters life.

S.

Nay rather Chremes, I most earnestly request and desire you, [line 5]

That you would really perform the kindness erewhile begun.

Ch.

See how unreasonable you are through earnestness; so you may effect what you have a minde to, You neither consider any mean in courtesies, nor what you intreat me. For if you did consider, you would forbear to burden me with your un∣reasonableness.

S.

What, what?

Ch.

Alas, do you ask? You have forced me [line 10] To bestow my daughter on a yong man intangled in loue with ano∣ther, Not enduring to hear of a wife, for discord, and uncertainty of wed∣lock; That by her trouble and grief I may cure your son; You obtained your desire, I began to do it, whilst the matter suffered; and now it doth not suffer, you must bear with me. They say she is a Citizen herehence, there a child born, let us alone.

Sim.

[line 15] I intreat you for Gods sake, that you would not give your mind to beleeve them, For whom it is most advantagious that he be as bad as bad can be; All these things are done and undertaken because of the marri∣age; When that cause why they do these things shall be taken away, they will be quiet.

Ch.

You are mistaken, I my self saw a maid chiding with Davus.

S.

I know it.

Ch.

[line 20] But in good earnest, when neither of them knew before-hand that I was there.

S.

I beleeve it, and Davus told me a while before that the women would do it. I know not what I have forgot to say to you to day, as I had intended.

Act. V. Scena 1.

Chremes, Simo.

Ch.

SAtis jam satis, Simo, spectata erga te amicitia est mea, Satis periculi incepi adire; orandi jam finem face. Dum studeo obsequi tibi, pene illusi vitam filiae.

S.

Immo enim quàm maximè abs te oro at{que} postulo, Chremes, [line 5]

Ut beneficium initum dudum re comprobes.

Ch.

Vide quàm iniquus sis prae studio; dum id effici••s quod cupis, Ne{que} modum benignitatis, ne{que} quid me ores, cogitas. Nam si cogites, remittas jam me onerare injuriis.

S.

Quibus?

Ch.

Ah rogitas? perpulisti me ut homini adolescentulo [line 10] In alio occupato amore, abhorrenti ab re uxoriâ Filiam darem in seditionem; atque in incertas nuptias; Ejus labore at{que} dolore gnato ut medicarer tuo. Impetrâsti, incepi dum res tetulit, nunc non fert, feras. Illam hinc civem esse aiunt, puer est gnatus, nos missos face.

Sim.

[line 15] Per ego te Deos oro, ut ne illis animum inducas credere, Quibus id maximè utile est, illum esse quàm deterrimum. Nuptiarum gratiâ haec sunt facta at{que} incepta omnia. Ubi ea causa, quamobrem haec faciunt, erit adempta his, desinent.

Ch.

Erras: cum Davo egomet vidi jurgantem ancillam.

S.

Scio.

Ch.

[line 20] At vero vultu, cùm ibi me adesse neuter tum praesenserat:

S.

Credo, & id facturas Davus dudum praedixit mihi. Et nescio quid tibi sum oblitus hodie ac volui dicere.