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.

Scene II.

Parmeno alone.

It were not good That I should follow him into the house: For all our family are odious to them. That's plain from their denying Sostrata Admittance yesterday. - And if by chance Her illness should increase (which Heav'n forbid, For my poor master's sake!), they'll cry directly, "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.