Why whip ye me alone? a plague take Damon and Pithias! since they came hither,
I am driven to seek relief abroad, alas! I know not whither.
Yet, Eubulus, though I be gone, here after time shall try,
There shall be found even in this court as great flatterers as I.
Well, for a while I will forego the court, though to my great pain:
I doubt not but to spy a time, when I may creep in again.
[Exit.
Eubulus. The serpent that eats men alive, flattery, with all her brood,
Is whipp’d away in princes’ courts, which yet did never good.
What force, what mighty power true friendship may possess,