Master, you’re right.—Take heed! (Apart to Phormio.)

Phor. I have explain’d

All that most clearly, where I ought, in court.

If it were false, why did not then your son

Refute it?

Dem. Do you tell me of my son?

Whose folly can’t be spoke of as it ought.

Phor. But you, who are so wise, go seek the judge:

Ask sentence in the self-same cause again:

Because you’re lord alone, and have alone