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