To force you to comply with my commands;
Yet yielding to paternal tenderness,
I e’en give way, nor cross your humor.
Lach. See,
Phidippus in good time! I’ll learn from him
The cause of this.— (Going up to him.) Phidippus, though I own
Myself indulgent to my family,
Yet my complacency and easiness
Runs not to that extreme, that my good-nature
Corrupts their morals. Would you act like me,