Mysis. Oh! we live as we can, as the saying goes: since we cannot live as we would.
Crito. Has Glycera discovered her parents here?
Mysis. Would to Heaven she had.
Crito. Not yet! In an evil hour then came I here: for, in truth, if I had known that, I would not have set a foot in this city. Glycera was always treated as, and called the sister of, Chrysis; and has in possession what property she left: and the example of others will teach me what ease, redress, and profit, I have to expect from [191]a suit at law: besides, I suppose, by this time, she has some lover to espouse her cause; for, she was no longer in her childhood, when she left the isle of Andros. I should be railed at as a beggar, and a pitiful legacy-hunter. Besides, I never could be cruel enough to reduce her to poverty.
Mysis. O excellent Crito! I see you are still the same worthy soul you used to be.
Crito. Well, since I am come, let me see the poor girl.
Mysis. By all means.
Davus. I will go with them: as I don’t wish to meet with our old gentleman just at this time.
END OF THE FOURTH ACT.