“TYNDARUS (_habited as Philocrates_).—Say I am well; and tell him this, good Tyndarus, We two have lived in sweetest harmony, Of one accord in all things; never yet Have you been faithless, never I unkind. And still, in this our strait, you have been true And loyal to the last, through woe and want, Have never failed me, nor in will nor deed. This when my father hears, for such good service To him and to his son, he cannot choose But give you liberty. I will insure it, If I go free from hence. ’Tis you alone, Your help, your kindness, your devoted service, Shall give me to my parents’ arms again. PHILOCRATES (_as Tyndarus_).—I have done this: I’m glad you should remember; And you have well deserved it: for if I Were in my turn to count up all the kindness That you have shown to me, day would grow night Before the tale were told. Were you my slave, You could have shown no greater zeal to serve me.” Hegio is moved to tears, and exclaims:— “O ye gods! Behold the honest nature of these men! They draw tears from me. Mark how cordially They love each other! and what praise the servant Heaps on his master!” Hegio, however, soon discovers the trick, and condemns Tyndarus to the quarries—a punishment whose horrors the young man compares to “the torments of the damned.” He is freed from bondage on the return of Philocrates with Hegio’s son—to learn that he also is a son of Hegio, stolen by a slave in his infancy and mourned as lost for twenty years. It had been his good fortune to be bought by the father of Philocrates, and to grow up the companion of the young noble. After this happy dénouement, the play closes with an address to the audience, valuable for the view it gives of the characters in the popular comedy. “Gallants, this play is founded on chaste manners; No amorous intrigues, no child exposed, No close old dotard cheated of his money, No youth in love, making his mistress free Without his father’s knowledge or consent. Few of this sort of plays our poets find, T’ improve our morals, and make good men better. Now if the piece has pleased you, with our acting If you’re content, and we have not incurred Displeasure by it, give us then this token: All who are willing that reward should wait On chaste and virtuous manners, give applause.” WARNER.