Assist the father. As my son, I see,

Ministers to th’ occasions of his friend,

Associated in counsels, rank, and age,

So we old men should serve each other too.

[ SCENE II.]

Enter Menedemus.

Mene. (to himself). Sure I’m by nature form’d for misery

Beyond the rest of humankind, or else

’Tis a false saying, though a common one,

“That time assuages grief.” For ev’ry day