With ease, and free from envy, may you gain
Praise, and conciliate friends.
Sosia. He rul’d his life
By prudent maxims: for, as times go now,
Compliance raises friends, and truth breeds hate.
Simo. Meanwhile, ’tis now about three years ago,
A certain woman from the isle of Andros,
Came o’er to settle in this neighborhood,
By poverty and cruel kindred driv’n:
Handsome and young.