than what is built on friendship;
For thus I reason, thus persuade myself:
He who performs his duty driven to't
By fear of punishment, while he believes
His actions are observ'd, so long he's wary;
But if he hopes for secrecy, returns
To his own ways again: But he whom kindness,
Him also inclination makes your own:
He burns to make a due return, and acts,
Present or absent, evermore the same.
'Tis this then is the duty of a father,
To make a son embrace a life of virtue,
Rather from choice than terror or constraint.
Here lies the mighty difference between
A father and a master. He who knows not
How to do this, let him confess he knows not
How to rule children.--But is this the man
Whom I was speaking of? Yes, yes, 'tis he.
He seems uneasy too, I know not why,
And I suppose, as usual, comes to wrangle.

[Changes:

_quotation marks at mid-speech supplied from 1768 edition_

_Harper_
[beginning of speech, through line
--Gods, that a man ...]
_Colman 1768_
Ho, Storax!--No reply?--Then Aeschinus
Never return'd, it seems, last night from supper;
Nor any of the slaves, who went to meet him.
--'Tis commonly--and oh how truly!--said,
If you are absent, or delay, 'twere best
That should befall you, which your wife declares
Or which in anger she supposes of you
Than that which kindest parents fear.--Your wife,
If you delay, suspects that you're engag'd
In some intrigue, debauch, or entertainment;
Consulting your own happiness abroad,
While she, poor soul! is left to pine at home.
But what a world of fears possess me now!
How many ills I figure to myself,
As causes that my son is not return'd!
Lest he have taken cold, or had a fall,
Or broke a limb!--Good heavens! that a man
Shou'd doat so much, or suffer any one]

SCENE II.

_Enter DEMEA._

MICIO. Demea, I'm glad to see you well.

DEMEA. Oho!
Well met: the very man I came to seek.

MICIO. But you appear uneasy: What's the matter?

DEMEA. Is it a question, when there's AEschinus
To trouble us, what makes me so uneasy?

MICIO. I said it would be so.--What has he done?

DEMEA. What has he done? a wretch, whom neither ties
Of shame, nor fear, nor any law can bind!
For not to speak of all his former pranks,
What has he been about but even now!

MICIO. What has he done?

DEMEA. Burst open doors, and forc'd
His way into another's house, and beat
The master and