Dion. [To Brentio] Come, sir. What entertainment is provided?

[Dion talks aside with slave]

Aris. So goes my friend. He who was happiest lost

In the vast solitude of a noble book,

Or Truth's deep-pathed discourse. A wife. Is this

My journey's end? That little haven whence

No harbored sail dares sea? Port of delay,

And pocket of emprise, whose shallows oft

Have sunk the mightiest hope of greatest states!

[Enter a servant]