Believe that you shall go unpunish'd for it?
_Colman 1768_
It was a clever trick, I warrant you?
CHAER. No, madam!
THAIS. Can you believe that you shall go unpunish'd?

_Harper_
THAIS. Upon what account?
_Colman 1768_
THAIS. Of what crime?

_Harper_
PYTH. Why so? if I had done 't
_Colman 1768_
PYTH. Not I. if I had done 't

_Harper_
Let me beseech you to assist me! I
Commit myself entirely to your care:
_Colman 1768_
Let me beseech you to assist me, Thais!
I trust myself entirely to your care:

_Harper_
PYTH. I'll not believe it, Chaerea, till I see it.
_Colman 1768_
PYTH. I'll not believe it, till I see it, Chaerea.]

SCENE III.

_PYTHIAS, CHREMES, SOPHRONA._

PYTH. What can I think of? what can I devise?
Some trick now to be even with that rogue
Who palm'd this young spark on us.

CHREM. (_leading the nurse_). Nay, but stir
Your stumps a little faster, nurse!

SOPH. I come.

CHREM. Aye, marry; but you don't come on a jot.

PYTH. Well! have you shown the tokens to the nurse?

CHREM. I have.

PYTH. And pray what says she? Did she know them?

CHREM. At first sight.

PYTH. Oh brave news! I'm glad to hear it;
For I've a kindness for the girl. Go in;
My mistress is impatient for your coming.
(_Exeunt CHREMES and SOPHRONA._
See, yonder's my good master Parmeno,
Marching this way: How unconcern'd, forsooth,
He stalks along!--But I've devis'd, I hope,
The means to vex him sorely.--First I'll in,
To know the truth of this discovery,
And then return to terrify this rascal. (_Exit._

SCENE IV.

_Enter PARMENO._

PAR. I'm come to see what Chaerea has been doing:
Who, if he has but manag'd matters well,
Good Heav'ns, how much, and what sincere applause
Shall Parmeno acquire!--For not to mention,
In an intrigue so difficult as this,
Of so much probable expense at least,
Since with a griping harlot he'd have bargain'd,
That I've procur'd for him the girl he lov'd,
Without cost, charge, or trouble; t'other point,
That, that I hold my master-piece, there think
I've gain'd the prize, in showing a young spark
The dispositions and the ways of harlots:
Which having early learn'd, he'll ever shun.
(_Enter PYTHIAS behind._)
When they're abroad, forsooth, there's none so clean,
Nothing so trim, so elegant, as they;
Nor, when they sup with a gallant, so nice!
To see these very creatures' gluttony,
Filth, poverty, and