Clit. Take heed! it were not good.

Chrem. How so?

Clit. Because the youth is yet in doubt:

Newly arriv’d; in fear of ev’ry thing;

He dreads his father’s anger, and suspects

The disposition of his mistress tow’rds him;

Her, whom he dotes upon; on whose account,

This diff’rence and departure came about.

Chrem. I know it.

Clit. He has just dispatch’d his boy