Exactly as it happen’d. I ne’er saw
The good old gentleman more pleas’d.
Dem. Oh Heav’n,
The folly of the man! (Listening.)
Syrus (to himself). He prais’d his son;
Me, who concerted the whole scheme, he thank’d.
Dem. I burst with rage. (Listening.)
Syrus (to himself). He told the money down
Immediately, and threw us in beside,
To make an entertainment, a half-mina: