Because you told me you’d be glad to have

An Ethiopian servant-maid, all else

Omitted, seek one out? You said besides,

You wish’d to have an Eunuch, ’cause forsooth,

They were for dames of quality; I found one:

For both I yesterday paid twenty minæ,

Yet you contemn me—I forgot not these,

And for these I’m despis’d.

Thais. Why this, my Phædria?

Though I would fain obtain the girl, and though