ll'd
The girl to bathe. She goes, bathes, then returns:
Which done, the servants put her into bed.
I stand to wait their orders. Up comes one,
"Here, harkye, Dorus! take this fan and mark
You cool her gently thus, while we go bathe.
When we have bath'd, you, if you please, bathe too,"
I, with a sober air, receive the fan.

ANTI. Then would I fain have seen your simple face!
I should have been delighted to behold
How like an ass you look'd, and held the fan.

CHAER. Scarce had she spoke, when all rush'd out o' doors;
Away they go to bathe; grow full of noise,
As servants use, when masters are abroad.
Meanwhile sleep seiz'd the virgin: I, by stealth,
Peep'd through the fan-sticks thus; then looking round,
And seeing all was safe, made fast the door.

ANTI. What then?

CHAER. What then, fool!

ANTI. I confess.

CHAER. D'ye think,
Bless'd with an opportunity like this,
So short, so wish'd for, yet so unexpected,
I'd let it slip? No. Then I'd been, indeed,
The thing I counterfeited.

ANTI. Very true.
But what's become of our club-supper?

CHAER. Ready.

ANTI. An honest fellow! where? at your own house?

CHAER. At Freeman Discus's.

ANTI. A great way off.

CHAER. Then we must make more haste.

ANTI. But change your dress.

CHAER. Where can I change it? I'm distress'd. From home
I must play truant, lest I meet my brother.
My father too, perhaps, is come to town.

ANTI. Come then to my house! that's the nearest place
Where you may shift.

CHAER. With all my heart! let's go!
And at the same time, I'll consult with you
How to enjoy this dear girl.

ANTI. Be it so.

[Changes:

_Harper_
Whither I'm going? whence I came? and where
_Colman 1768_
Whither I'm going? from whence I came? and where

_Harper_
ANTI. Yes: Thais,
Or I'm deceiv'd.
CHAER. The same.
ANTI. I do remember.
_Colman 1768_
ANTI. I do:
Thais, I think.
CHAER. The same.
ANTI. I recollect.

_Harper_
The first of womankind.--But to be brief
_Colman 1768_
The first of womankind.--But in a word

To Danae's bosom.
_Harper edition misprints "Danae's"_

"Here, harkye, Dorus! take this fan ...
_quotation marks in this speech supplied from 1768 edition_

_Harper_
ANTI. Come then to my house! that's the nearest place
_Colman 1768_
ANTI. Come to my house then! that's the nearest place]

ACT THE FOURTH.

SCENE I.

_Enter DORIAS,