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,