“Sostrata’s servant came into the house:”

Swear,—“that I brought the plague along with me,

Put all their lives in danger, and increas’d

Philumena’s distemper.”—By which means

My mistress will be blam’d, and I be beaten.

[ SCENE III.]

Enter Sostrata.

Sostra. Alas, I hear a dreadful noise within.

Philumena, I fear, grows worse and worse:

Which Æsculapius, and thou, Health, forbid!