This injury, it was not honorable

In you to do it.—As I live, I know not

What counsel to pursue about this girl;

You’ve so destroy’d my measures, that I can’t

Restore her, without blushing to her friends,

Nor so deliver her, as I propos’d,

To make them thank me for my kindness, Chærea!

Chær. Henceforth, I hope, eternal peace shall be

Betwixt us, Thais! Oft from things like these,

And bad beginnings, warmest friendships rise.