Cle. What think you of this, Phormio?
Phor. A most excellent girl! would she were poor.
Cle. Why poor?
Phor. She would live rarely by her——
Cle. What?
Phor. Wit! I would be a good customer.
Ire. 'Twould please you to hear with what arguments she justifies this cruelty, and swears it is not revenge enough for spoiling her good nature.
Erg. I spoil her good nature?
Phor. Nay, let her go on; I'll hearken an age.