Sosia. How say you!
Simo. I
Return in anger thence, and hurt at heart,
Yet had no cause sufficient for reproof.
“What have I done? he’d say; or how deserv’d
Reproach? or how offended, Father?—Her
Who meant to cast herself into the flames,
I stopped.” A fair excuse!
Sosia. You’re in the right;
For him, who sav’d a life, if you reprove,