Par. And a kind farewell to you, my dear Philotis.
Exeunt severally.
[ ACT THE SECOND.]
[ Scene I.][31]
Enter Laches and Sostrata, from the house of the former.
Lach. O faith of Gods and men! what a race is this! what a conspiracy this! that all women should desire and reject every individual thing alike! And not a single one can you find to swerve in any respect from the disposition of the rest. For instance, quite as though with one accord, do all mothers-in-law hate their daughters-in-law. Just in the same way is it their system to oppose their husbands; their obstinacy here is the same. In the very same school they all seem to me to have been trained up to perverseness. Of that school, if there is any mistress, I am very sure that she (pointing at Sostrata) it is.
Sos. Wretched me! when now I don’t so much as know why I am accused!
Lach. Eh! you don’t know?
Sos. So may the Gods kindly prosper me, Laches, and so may it be allowed us to pass our lives together in unity!
Lach. (aside.) May the Gods avert such a misfortune!