Open to me, or that because I stand

The first in your good graces. (Ironically.)

Thais. Nay, no more!

Phæd. No more?—O Thais, Thais, would to Heaven

Our loves were parallel, that things like these

Might torture you, as this has tortur’d me:

Or that your actions were indifferent to me!

Thais. Grieve not, I beg, my love, my Phædria!

Not that I lov’d another more, I did this.

But I by circumstance was forc’d to do it.