sh was telling down, in pops,
All unexpected, Master Ctesipho:
Cries out--"Oh AEschinus, are these your courses?
Do you commit these crimes? and do you bring
Such a disgrace upon our family?"

DEM. Oh, oh, I weep for joy.

SYRUS. ----"You squander not
The money only, but your life, your honor."

DEM. Heav'n bless him; he is like his ancestors. (_Weeping._)

SYRUS. Father's own son, I warrant him.

DEM. Oh, Syrus!
He's full of all those precepts, he!

SYRUS. No doubt on't:
He need not go from home for good instruction.

DEM. I spare no pains; neglect no means; I train him.
--In short, I bid him look into the lives
Of all, as in a mirror, and thence draw
From others an example for himself.
--"Do this."----

SYRUS. Good!

DEM. "Fly that."

SYRUS. Very good!

DEM. "This deed
Is commendable."

SYRUS. That's the thing!

DEM. "That's reprehensible."

SYRUS. Most excellent!

DEM. "And then moreover----"

SYRUS. Faith, I have not time
To give you further audience just at present,
I've got an admirable dish of fish;
And I must take good care they are not spoil'd.
For that were an offense as grievous, Demea,
In us, as 'twere in you to leave undone
The things you just now mentioned: and I try,
According to my weak abilities,
To teach my fellow-slaves the self-same way.
--"This is too salt.--This is burnt up too much.
That is not nice and cleanly.--That's well done.
Mind, and do so again."--I spare no pains,
And give them the best precepts that I can.
In short, I bid them look into the dishes,
As in a mirror, Demea, and thence learn
The duty of a cook.--This school of ours,
I own, is idle: but what can you do?
According to the man must be the lesson.
--Would you aught else with us?

DEM. Your reformation.

SYRUS. Do you go hence into the country?

DEM. Straight.

SYRUS. For what should you do here, where nobody,
However good your precepts, cares to mind them? (_Exit._

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_Harper_
SYRUS. We've just
Disclos'd the whole of this affair to Micio,
_Colman 1768_
SYRUS. We've just disclos'd
The whole of this affair to Micio,

_Harper_
DEM. So! if you'd have your business well ta'en care of,
_Colman 1768_
DEM. So! if you'd have your business well discharg'd

_Harper_
Cleanse you the rest of those fish, Dromo: let
_Colman 1768_
Here! Hark ye, Dromo! see you gut and scale
The other fish immediately: But let

SYRUS. As fathers