Jup. [Aside.] I had forgot, and shewed myself a god:
This love can make a fool of Jupiter.
Phæd. You have forgot some part of the enemies' spoil, I warrant you. I see a little trifling diamond upon your finger; and I am proud enough to think it would become mine too.
Jup. Here take it.—[Taking a Ring off his Finger, and giving it.
This is a very woman;
Her sex is avarice, and she, in one,
Is all her sex.
Phæd. Ay, ay, 'tis no matter what you say of us. What, would you have your money out of the treasury, without paying the officers their fees? Go, get you together, you naughty couple, till you are both weary of worrying one another; and then to-morrow morning I shall have another fee for parting you.
[Phædra goes out before Alcmena with a light.
Jup. Why now, I am indeed the lord of all;