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