It shall not be: Nor will I draw, good mother,

That censure on me, that my obstinacy,

Not your good-nature, was the cause.—Besides,

That you should quit relations, friends, diversions,

On my account, I can’t allow.

Sostra. Alas!

Those things have no allurements for me now.

While I was young, and ’twas the season for them,

I had my share, and I am satisfied.

’Tis now my chief concern to make my age