The Comedies of Terence

 Table of Contents

 Prologue.

 Another Prologue.

 Act the First.

 Scene I.

 Scene II.

 Act the Second.

 Scene I.

 Scene II.

 Scene III.

 Act the Third.

 Scene I.

 Scene II.

 Scene III.

 Scene IV.

 Scene V.

 Scene VI.

 Scene VII.

 Scene VIII.

 Scene IX.

 Scene X.

 Act the Fourth.

 Scene I.

 Scene II.

 Scene III.

 Scene IV.

 Scene V.

 Scene VI.

 Scene VII.

 Scene VIII.

 Scene IX.

 Act the Fifth.

 Scene I.

 Scene II.

 Scene III.

 Scene IV.

Prologue.

This play is call'd the Step-Mother . When first It was presented, such a hurricane, A tumult so uncommon interven'd, It neither could be seen nor understood: So taken were the people, so engag'd By a rope-dancer! - It is now brought on As a new piece: and he who wrote the play Suffer'd it not to be repeated then, That he might profit by a second sale. Others, his plays, you have already known; Now then, let me beseech you, know this too.