Enter Micio.
Ho, Storax!—No reply?—Then Aeschinus
Never return’d, it seems, last night from supper;
Nor any of the slaves, who went to meet him.
—’Tis commonly—and oh how truly!—said,
If you are absent, or delay, ’twere best
That should befall you, which your wife declares
Or which in anger she supposes of you
Than that which kindest parents fear.—Your wife,
If you delay, suspects that you’re engag’d