SCENE II.
George Colman translation
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.