And that too grounded on appearances.

Sostrata thinks that on my own account

I bought the Music-Girl. That’s plain enough

From the old nurse. For meeting her by chance,

As she was sent from hence to call a midwife,

I ran, and ask’d her of my Pamphila.

—“Is she in labor? are you going now

To call a midwife?”—“Go, go, Æschinus!

Away, you have deceiv’d us long enough,

Fool’d us enough with your fine promises,”