To do with them? let's go!--Ha! why those tears?

AESCH. Father, beseech you, hear me!

MICIO. AEschinus,
I have heard all, and I know all, already:
For I do love you; wherefore all your actions
Touch me the more.

AESCH. So may you ever love me,
And so may I deserve your love, my father,
As I am sorry to have done this fault,
And am asham'd to see you!

MICIO. I believe it;
For well I know you have a liberal mind:
But I'm afraid you are too negligent,
For in what city do you think you live?
You have abus'd a virgin, whom the law
Forbade your touching.--'Twas a fault, a great one;
But yet a natural failing. Many others,
Some not bad men, have often done the same.
--But after this event, can you pretend
You took the least precaution? or consider'd
What should be done, or how?--If shame forbade
Your telling me yourself, you should have found
Some other means to let me know of it.
Lost in these doubts, ten months have slipp'd away.
You have betray'd, as far as in you lay,
Yourself, the poor young woman, and your child.
What! did you think the Gods would bring about
This business in your sleep; and that your wife,
Without your stir, would be convey'd to you
Into your bed-chamber?--I would not have you
Thus negligent in other matters.--Come,
Cheer up, son! you shall wed her.

AESCH. How!

MICIO. Cheer up,
I say!

AESCH. Nay, prithee, do not mock me, father!

MICIO. Mock you? I? wherefore?

AESCH. I don't know; unless
That I so much desire it may be true,
I therefore fear it more.

MICIO. --Away; go home;
And pray the Gods, that you may call your wife
Away!

AESCH. How's that? my wife? what! now?

MICIO. Now.

AESCH. Now?

MICIO. Ev'n now, as soon as possible.

AESCH. May all
The Gods desert me, Sir, but I do love you,
More than my eyes!

MICIO. Than her?

AESCH. As well.

MICIO. That's much.

AESCH. But where is that Milesian?

MICIO. Gone:
Vanish'd: on board the ship.--But why d'ye loiter?

AESCH. Ah, Sir, you rather go, and pray the Gods;
For, being a much better man than I,
They will the sooner hear your pray'rs.

MICIO. I'll in,
To see the needful preparations made.
You, if you're wise, do as I said. (_Exit._

[Changes:

More than my eyes!
_Harper edition has question mark_

SCENE VII.

_AESCHINUS alone._

How's this?
Is this to be a father? Or is this
To be a son?--Were he my friend or brother,
Could he be more complacent to my wish?
Should I not