Sost.No, son.

I’ll do my best to win him. (To Ph.) I thank you, sir, very kindly.

[Exit Sostrata.

Ph. I wish you good success.

A sensible body. I lean

On her and old Menedemus. Not that I doubt myself;

I know a stroke to play: is’t not the feast of Bacchus?

I will invoke the god; his genius will confound

This dull, contrary Chremes. What’s his humour worth

To gods or men, that I should bow to it? Nay, & since