him?
How d'ye suppose he felt when old gray-beard
Surpris'd him in that habit?--What! you find
That you're undone. (_Laughing heartily._)

PAR. What's this, impertinence?
Was it a lie you told me? D'ye laugh still?
Is't such a jest to make fools of us, hag?

PYTH. Delightful! (_Laughing._)

PAR. If you don't pay dearly for it!----

PYTH. Perhaps so. (_Laughing._)

PAR. I'll return it.

PYTH. Oh, no doubt on't. (_Laughing._)
But what you threaten, Parmeno, is distant:
You'll be truss'd up to-day; who first draw in
A raw young man to sin, and then betray him.
They'll both conspire to make you an example. (_Laughing._)

PAR. I'm done for.

PYTH. Take this, slave, as a reward
For the fine gift you sent us; so, farewell! (_Exit PYTHIAS._

PAR. I've been a fool indeed; and like a rat,
Betray'd myself to-day by my own squeaking.

[Changes:

_Harper_
PAR. Why so? pray!
PYTH. Why so?
_Colman 1768_
PAR. For what cause?
PYTH. What cause?

_Harper_
Or was you prick'd in conscience for the sin
The young man had committed through your means,
That you must after tell his father of him?
_Colman 1768_
Or was not you contented with the crime
You urg'd the youth to perpetrate, unless
You afterwards betray'd him to his father?]

SCENE VIII.

_Enter THRASO, GNATHO; PARMENO behind._

GNAT. What now? in what hope, or with what design
Advance we hither? what adventure, Thraso?

THRASO. What do I mean?--To Thais to surrender
On her own terms?

GNAT. Indeed?

THRASO. Indeed! why not,
As well as Hercules to Omphale?

GNAT. A fit example.--Would I might behold
Your head broke with her slipper. (_Aside._) But her doors
Creak, and fly open.

THRASO. 'Sdeath! what mischief now?
I ne'er so much as saw this face before.
Why bursts he forth with such alacrity?

[Changes:

_1768 version of entire scene:_
GNAT. What now? with what hope, or design, advance we?
What's your intention, Thraso?
THRASO. My intention?
To Thais to surrender at discretion.
GNAT. How say you?
THRASO. Even so. Why should not I,
As well as Hercules to Omphale?
GNAT. A fit example.--Oh, that I could see her
Combing your empty noddle with her slipper!
But her door opens.
THRASO. 'Sdeath! what mischief now?
I ne'er so much as saw this face before.
Why bursts he forth with such alacrity?]

SCENE IX.

_Enter CHAEREA at anot