SCENE IX.

Phormio alone.

Well done, ’fore Heaven!

I’m overjoy’d to see so much good fortune

Fallen thus unexpectedly upon them:

I’ve now an admirable opportunity

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, though 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 a while into the next by-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.

ACT THE FIFTH.