What I have done was due to your deferts:

For were I in my count to tell the fum
Of all your friendly offices towards me,
Night would bear off the day, ere I had done.
You was obliging, -as obfequious to me,

As though you were my fervant.

HEG. O ye Gods !--

Behold the honeft nature of these men !--- 1

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They draw tears from me.---Mark, how cordially They love each other! and what praise the fervant 85 Heaps on his master!

PHIL. He deferves from me

An hundred times more praise, than he was pleas'd To lavish on me.

HEG. (To Phil.) Then, fince hitherto

You've acted worthily, occafion now

Prefents itself to add to your good deeds,

That you may prove your faithfulness towards him In this affair..

PHIL. My wish to compass it

Cannot exceed th' endeavours I will use
To get it perfected.---And to convince you,
Here do I call high Jove to witnefs, Hegio,
I will not prove unfaithful to Philocrates.---
HEG. Thou art an honeft fellow.---

PHIL. Nor will I

go

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V. 96. Unfaithful to Philocrates.] The ancients had prodigious faith in oaths. Philocrates therefore, in the character of Tyndarus his fervant, fpeaks this to confirm Hegio in the belief of his fidelity to his fuppofed mafter. There is a particular grace and elegance in making Philocrates thus fwear to be faithful to himself.

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Act otherwife to Him, than I myself

Would act to Me.

TYND. Would you might make your words True by your actions ---Bear it in your mind, 100 That I have faid lefs of you than I would, And prithee be not angry with my words. Think, I beseech you, that my honour's staked For your difmiffion, and my life is here

A pledge for your return. When out of fight, 105 As fhortly you will be, deny not then

All knowledge of me: when you shall have left me
Here as a pawn in flavery for you,
Yourself at liberty, defert not then
Your hoftage, then neglect not to procure
His fon's redemption in exchange for me.
Remember, you are fent on this affair,
Rated at twenty Mine. See, that you
Be trufty to the trufty :---O beware,
You are not of a frail and fickle faith.---
My father will, I know, do all he ought:

Preferve me then your friend for evermore,,

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And still find Hegio your's, as you have found him.

By your right hand, which here I hold in mine,

I pray you, be not you lefs true to me,
Than I am unto you.---About it then;
Be careful of this bufinefs ;---you are now
My master, you my patron, you my father:

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V. 118. And fill find Hegio your's, as you have found him.] Atque hunc inventum inveni.-M. Cofte understands this in another fenfe, find out this man we have already got scent of. I have followed De L'Oeuvre and Lambin..

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To you I do commend my hopes, my all.

PHIL. If I accomplish all that you command, 125 Will that content you?

TYND. I fhall be content.

PHIL. I will return furnish'd to both your wishes.--Would you ought elfe?

TYND. Back with what speed you may. PHIL. Of that the business of itself reminds me. HEG. (To Phil.) Follow me now.---I'll give you from my Banker

What you may want to answer your expences
Upon your voyage, at the fame time take

A paffport from the Prætor.

TYND. Why a paffport?

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HEG. Which he may carry with him to the army, That he may have permiffion without let 135 To return home to Elis.---(To Tynd.) Go you in. TYND. Now speed you well, my Tyndarus! PHIL. Adieu ! HEG. (Afide.) I've compass'd my design by purchasing

Thefe captives of the Quaftors from the spoil:

V. 130.

I'll give you from my Banker

What you may want to answer your expences.]

-Viaticum ut dem a Trapezitâ tibi.—

Some commentators have supposed, that by viaticum was meant a description and account of the road, fomething like what we have at this time in books for that purpofe. And there is a paffage in our Author in his Pfeudolus, A&t II. Scene III. v. 2. which feems to favour that opinion. But whatever be the sense there, it is plain that here it must be as I have tranflated it.-For what can Hegio be fuppofed to fetch, a Trapezitâ, from his Banker, but Money?

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So

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So please the Gods! I've free'd my fon from bondage.--

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Within, hoa!---Keep a strict watch o'er this captive :
Let him not budge a foot without a guard.---'
I foon fhall be at home.---Now to my brother's:
I'll go and visit there my other captives,

At the fame time enquire, if any know

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This youth here.---(To Phil.) Do you follow, that I

may

Dispatch you strait ;---for that's

my first concern.

[HEGIO goes off with PHILOCRATES, and

TYNDARUS goes in with the Slaves,

The End of the SECOND ACT,

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T's a fad cafe for a poor wretch to prowl

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In queft of a meal's meat, and at the last
With much ado to find one ;---fadder is it,
With much ado to hunt upon the trail,
And at the last find nothing; but most sad,
To have a keen and craving appetite,
Without a morfel to appease it's longing.---
A plague upon this day !---I'd dig it's eyes out,
Had I the pow'r, it has fo fill'd mankind
With enmity towards me.---Never fure

Was there a wretch fo ftarv'd, fo cram'd with hunger, Or one, whose projects have so little prosper'd.--

I fear, my belly will keep holy-day.

Would it were hang'd for me, this scurvy trade,
This Parafite's profeffion !---Our young sparks
Confort not now a-days with us poor drolls;
They care not for us humble hangers-on,

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V. 8. A plague upon this day! I'd dig it's eyes out.] Huic diet oculos effodiam.

V. 13. My belly will keep holiday.] The original is,

Venter gutturque refident efuriales ferias.

The allufion is, that as on feaft-days and holidays people abftain from work, our Parafite fays, his belly has no employment.