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Chr. (aside).I must not let my son
Know how this old man dotes. If he should think all fathers
As soft as poor Menedemus, pretty pranks he’d play me!
Pam. What were you saying?
Chr.Ha! I’ll tell you what I was saying;
That in any case his duty was to have stayed at home.
’Tis possible that his father was somewhat more severe
Than he found pleasant; but still he should have put up with it.
For whom shd a lad submit to, if not to his own father?