To work the cost of their living out on my fields, I sent them
To market and sold them, I put up a notice, THIS HOUSE TO LET;
And setting the price of all, some fifty talents, together,
I bought this farm, and am well convinced at heart, Chremes,
That in making myself miserable I act more justly
Towards him, my absent son; and that ’twere crime to indulge
In any comfort, till he return home safe again
To share it with me.
Chr.I see that you are a kind father;
And he, I think, had been a dutiful son, if treated