Byr. (apart.) Hah!
Dav. (in a low voice to Pamphilus.) He is struck dumb.
Byr. (apart.) What a speech!
Sim. You act as becomes you, when that which I ask I obtain with a good grace.
Dav. (aside to Pamphilus.) Am I right?
Byr. My master, so far as I learn, has missed his wife.
Sim. Now, then, go in-doors, that you mayn’t be causing delay when you are wanted.
Pam. I’ll go.
Goes into the house.
Byr. (apart.) Is there, in no case, putting trust in any man? That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that “all had rather it to be well for themselves than for another.” I remember noticing, when I saw her, that she was a young woman of handsome figure; wherefore I am the more disposed to excuse Pamphilus, if he has preferred that he himself, rather than the other, should embrace her in his slumbers. I’ll carry back these tidings, that, in return for this evil he may inflict evil upon me.[56]