ntly, Sir, gently!

ANT. See if you can help him.

GETA. Help him! but how?

ANT. Nay, think, invent, devise;
Lest he do something we repent of, Geta!

GETA. I'm thinking. (_Pausing._)--Well then I believe, he's safe.
But I'm afraid of mischief.

ANT. Never fear:
We'll bear all good and evil fortune with you.

GETA. Tell me the sum you have occasion for.

PHAED. But thirty minae.

GETA. Thirty! monstrous, Phaedria!
She's very dear.

PHAED. Dog-cheap.

GETA. Well, say no more.
I'll get them for you.

PHAED. O brave fellow!

GETA. Hence!

PHAED. But I shall want it now.

GETA. You'll have it now.
But Phormio must assist me in this business.

ANT. He's ready: lay what load you will upon him,
He'll bear it all; for he's a friend indeed.

GETA. Let's to him quickly then!

ANT. D'ye want my help?

GETA. We've no occasion for you. Get you home
To the poor girl, who's almost dead with fear;
And see you comfort her.--Away! d'ye loiter?

ANT. There's nothing I would do so willingly. (_Exit._

PHAED. But how will you effect this?

GETA. I'll explain
That matter as we go along.--Away! (_Exeunt._

[Changes:

_Harper_
That the old man now rages at us all
_Colman 1768_
That Demipho now rages at us all]

ACT THE THIRD.

SCENE I.

_Enter DEMIPHO and CHREMES._

DEM. Well, Chremes, have you brought your daughter with you,
On whose account you went to Lemnos?

CHREM. No.

DEM. Why not?

CHREM. It seems the mother, grown impatient,
Perceiving that I tarried here so long,
And that the girl's age brook'd not my delays,
Had journeyed here, they said, in search of me,
With her whole family.

DEM. Appris'd of this,
What kept you there so long then?

CHREM. A disease.

DEM. How came it? what disease?

CHREM. Is that a question?
Old age itself is a disease.--However,
The master of the ship, who brought them over,
Inform'd me of their safe arrival hither.

DEM. Have you heard, Chremes, of my son's misfortune
During my absence?

CHREM. Aye; and it confounds me.
For to another should I tender her,
I must relate the girl's whole history,
And whence arises my connection with her.
You I can trust as safely as myself:
But if a stranger courts alliance with me,
While we're new friends, he'll hold his peace perhaps,
But if he cools, he'll know too much of me.
Then I'm afraid my wife should know of this;
Which if she does, I've nothing else to do
But shake myself, an