You do me honor! I am but too happy
To have such guests beneath my humble roof.
It is not often that I have occasion
To speak with scholars; and Emollit mores,
Nec sinit esse feros, Cicero says.
Hyp. ’Tis Ovid, is it not?
P. Cura. No, Cicero.
Hyp. Your grace is right. You are the better scholar.
Now what a dunce was I to say ’twas Ovid.
But hang me if it is not! (Aside.)