Children, old age, the partner of the couch.
Amph. True, son! thy duty is—be friend to friends
And foe to foes: yet—no more haste than needs!
Her. Why, father, what is over-hasty here?
Amph. Many a pauper—seeming to be rich,
As the word goes—the king calls partisan.
Such made a riot, ruined Thebes to rob
Their neighbor: for, what good they had at home
Was spent and gone,—flew off through idleness.
You came to trouble Thebes, they saw: since seen,