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SCENE IX.
PHORMIOalone.
Well done, 'fore heaven!
I'm overjoy'd to see so much good fortune
Fallen thus unexpectedly upon them:
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To bubble the old gentlemen, and ease
Phædria of all his cares about the money;
So that he need not be oblig'd to friends.
For this same money, tho' it will be given,
Will yet come from them much against the grain;
But I have found a way to force them to't.
—Now then I must assume a grander air,
And put another face upon this business.
—I'll hence awhile into the next bye-alley,
And pop upon them, as they're coming forth.
—As for the trip I talk'd of to the Fair,
I sha'n't pretend to take that journey now.
[Exit.
Gaudes, &c. Pro gaudeo Guyetus Plaudite: & scenas sequentes spurias esse pronuntiat; neminemque, siquidem sanus fuerit, a se dissensurum putat. Credasne hunc hominem sanæ tum mentis fuisse,cum hæc effutiret? certe ad Anticyras relegandus tum erat; non nunc argumentis refutandus. Nihil in toto Terentio sequentibus scenis pulchrius, venustius, urbanius, moratius: sine quibus reliqua fabula, quæ nulli cedit, ex fulgore in fumum exiret.
Bentley.See the last note to the fifth act.
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