PYTH. Who comes here?--Hist! peace, madam, I beseech you!
We're safe: we have the very man.
(_Seeing CHAEREA at a distance._)

THAIS. Where is he?

PYTH. Here, on the left; d'ye see him, ma'am?

THAIS. I see him.

PYTH. Let him be seiz'd immediately!

THAIS. And what
Can we do to him, fool?

PYTH. Do to him, say you?
--See, what a saucy face the rogue has got!
Ha'nt he?--and then how settled an assurance?

SCENE II.

_Enter CHAEREA._

CHAER. At Antipho's, as if for spite, there were
His father and his mother both at home,
So that I could by no means enter, but
They must have seen me. Meanwhile, as I stood
Before the door, came by an old acquaintance,
At sight of whom I flew, with all my speed,
Into a narrow, unfrequented alley;
And thence into another, and another,
Frighten'd and flurried as I scampered on,
Lest any one should know me.--But is that
Thais? 'Tis she herself. I'm all aground.
What shall I do?--Pshaw! what have I to care?
What can she do to me?

THAIS. Let's up to him.
Oh, Dorus! good Sir, welcome!--And so, Sirrah,
You ran away.

CHAER. Yes, madam!

THAIS. And you think
It was a clever trick?

CHAER. No, madam!

THAIS. Can you
Believe that you shall go unpunish'd for it?

CHAER. Forgive me this one fault! If I commit
Another, kill me!

THAIS. Do you dread my cruelty?

CHAER. No, ma'am!

THAIS. What then?

CHAER. I was afraid, lest She
Accuse me to you. (_Pointing to PYTHIAS._)

THAIS. Upon what account?

CHAER. A little matter.

PYTH. Rogue! a little matter?
Is it so little, think you, to abuse
A virgin, and a citizen!

CHAER. I thought
She was my fellow-servant.

PYTH. Fellow-servant!
I can scarce hold from flying at his hair.
Monstrous! he's come to make his sport of us.

THAIS. Away! you rave.

PYTH. Why so? if I had done 't,
I should have still been in the monster's debt;
Particularly, as he owns himself
Your servant.

THAIS. Well--no more of this.--Oh, Chaerea,
You've done a deed unworthy of yourself:
For granting I, perhaps, might well deserve
This injury, it was not honorable
In you to do it.--As I live, I know not
What counsel to pursue about this girl;
You've so destroy'd my measures, that I can't
Restore her, without blushing to her friends,
Nor so deliver her, as I propos'd,
To make them thank me for my kindness, Chaerea!

CHAER. Henceforth, I hope, eternal peace shall be
Betwixt us, Thais! Oft from things like these,
And bad