Scene I.

Thais and Pythias .

Thais. Still, still, you, baggage, will you shuffle with me? - "I know - I don't know - he's gone off - I've heard - I was not present" - Be it what it may, Can't you inform me openly? - The Virgin, Her clothes all torn, in sullen silence weeps. The Eunuch's fled. - What means all this? and what Has happen'd? - Won't you answer me?

Pyth. Alas! What can I answer you? - He was, they say, No Eunuch.

Thais. What then?

Pyth. Chærea.

Thais. Chærea! What Chærea?

Pyth. Phædria's younger brother.

Thais. How! What's that, hag?

Pyth. I've discover'd it: I'm sure on't.

Thais. Why, what had he to do with us? or why Was he brought hither?

Pyth. That I can not tell; Unless, as I suppose, for love of Pamphila.

Thais. Alas! I am undone; undone, indeed, If that, which you have told me now, be true. Is't that the girl bemoans thus?

Pyth. I believe so.

Thais. How, careless wretch! was that the charge I gave you At my departure?

Pyth. What could I do? She Was trusted, as you bade, to him alone.

Thais. Oh, jade, you set the wolf to keep the sheep - I'm quite asham'd to 've been so poorly bubbled.

Pyth. Who comes here? - Hist! peace, madam, I beseech you! We're safe: we have the very man.

Seeing Chærea at a distance.

Thais. Where is he?

Pyth. Here, on the left; d'ye see him, ma'am?

Thais. I see him.

Pyth. Let him be seiz'd immediately!

Thais. And what Can we do to him, fool?

Pyth. Do to him, say you? - See, what a saucy face the rogue has got! Ha'nt he? - and then how settled an assurance?