But made me just your drudge, to love and save you.

Ptol. 'Protest I thought them honest; are they not?

Cas. Ye gods! why did you make this man your image?

And made him but an image?—You'll forgive me;

I love you so, that I am forced to rail.

You saw no close conveyance of the game

Betwixt the crafty sire and cunning son;

How slily one invented an excuse,

And t'other took it up as dexterously!

Ptol. Why, sure Cleanthes was his father's spy?