Merc. Thou, Gripus, and you, Bromia, stay with Phædra:

[To Gripus and Bromia, who are following.

Let their affairs alone, and mind we ours,

Amphitryon's rival shall appear a god:

But know beforehand, I am Mercury;

Who want not heaven, while Phædra is on earth.

Brom. But, an't please your lordship, is my fellow Phædra to be exalted into the heavens, and made a star?

Phæd. When that comes to pass, if you look up a-nights, I shall remember old kindness, and vouch-safe to twinkle on you.

Enter Sosia, peeping about him; and, seeing Mercury, is starting back.

Sos. Here he is again; and there's no passing by him into the house, unless I were a sprite, to glide in through the key-hole. I am to be a vagabond, I find.