A soft pad strumpet for our monarch's use;

Though, thanked be hell, we want not one at home,—

Our master's mistress, she that governs all.

'Tis well, ye powers, ye made us but Egyptians:

You could not have imposed

On any other people such a load,

As an effeminate tyrant and a woman.

Cleom. Sell me thy horses, and, at my return,

When I have got from conquered Greece the pelf

That noble Sparta scorns, I'll pay their value.