Kissed you, and pressed you close within my arms,
With all the tenderness of wifely love.
Amph. I could have spared that kindness.— [Aside.
And what did I?
Alcm. You strained me with a masculine embrace,
As you would squeeze my soul out.
Amph. Did I so?
Alcm. You did.
Amph. Confound those arms that were so kind!— [Aside.