with a Casket._

DORIAS.

Now, as I hope for mercy, I'm afraid,
From what I've seen, lest yonder swaggerer
Make some disturbance, or do violence
To Thais. For as soon as Chremes came,
(The youth that's brother to the virgin,) she
Beseech'd of Thraso he might be admitted.
This piqu'd him; yet he durst not well refuse.
She, fearing Chremes should not be detain'd,
Till she had time and opportunity
To tell him all she wish'd about his sister,
Urg'd Thraso more and more to ask him in.
The Captain coldly asks him; down he sat;
And Thais enter'd into chat with him.
The Captain, fancying a rival brought
Before his face, resolv'd to vex her too:
"Here, boy," said he, "let Pamphila be call'd
To entertain us!"--"Pamphila!" cries Thais;
"She at a banquet?--No it must not be."----
Thraso insisting on't, a broil ensued:
On which my mistress slyly slipping off
Her jewels, gave them me to bear away;
Which is, I know, a certain sign, she will,
As soon as possible, sneak off herself. _Exit._)

[Changes:

_all quotation marks isupplied from 1768 edition_

_Harper_
(The youth that's brother to the virgin,) she
Beseech'd of Thraso he might be admitted.
_Colman 1768_
(Chremes, the youth that's brother to the virgin,)
She beg'd of Thraso, he might be admitted.]

SCENE II.

_Enter PHAEDRIA._

PHAED. Going into the country, I began
(As happens when the mind is ill at ease)
To ponder with myself upon the road,
Tossing from thought to thought, and viewing all
In the worst light. While thus I ruminate,
I pass unconsciously my country-house,
And had got far beyond, ere I perceiv'd it.
I turn'd about, but with a heavy heart;
And soon as to the very spot I came
Where the roads part, I stop. Then paus'd a while:
"Alas! thought I, and must I here remain]
Two days? alone: without her?--Well! what then?
That's nothing.--What, is't nothing?--If I've not
The privilege to touch her, shall I not
Behold her neither?--If _one_ may not be,
At least the _other_ shall.--And certainly
Love, in its last degree, is something still."
--Then I, on purpose, pass'd the house.--But see!
Pythias breaks forth affrighted.--What means this?

[Changes:

"Alas! thought I ...
_quotation marks in this speech supplied from 1768 edition_

SCENE III.

_Enter PYTHIAS and DORIAS; PHAEDRIA at a distance._

PYTH. Where shall I find, unhappy that I am,
Where seek this rascal-slave?--this slave, that durst
To d