And bear it patiently.

Naus. How! bear it patiently?

Alas! I wish his vices might end here.

But have I the least hope? can I suppose

That years will cure these rank offenses in him?

Ev’n at that time he was already old,

If age could make him modest.—Are my years

And beauty, think ye, like to please him more

At present, Demipho, than formerly?

—In short, what ground, what reason to expect