_Sen._ Be still. Let not thy heart rebel. Now is the hour of proof. _Pau._ If ’twere God’s will. _Sen._ All is God’s will: and as we lived together In love, so now we part. _Pau._ Why should we part? What thou doest I will do: I fear not death. I’ll hold my little candle by thy sun.... _Sen._ It may not be. Use thy high courage rather To live. Yes, live in peace: live long. _Pau._ With thee Murdered! Alas! _Sen._ Give me thy last embrace. _Pau._ Was not my faith then true? Are we not one? _Sen._ Yes, yes: we are one. _Pau._ Then now forbid me not To die with thee. _FANNIA._ Do not this thing, madam! _Pau._ Nay, hold me not! _Sen._ Paullina, dost thou make This desperate choice truly with all thy heart? _Pau._ With all my heart. _Sen._ Thou dost? Dear wife, I thought Cæsar could part us: now I can forgive him.— To you, my friends, farewell! Thrasea, farewell! Priscus, farewell! Fannia, farewell!—Paullina, (_Taking her hand_) Since thou canst dare, we will go hand in hand To learn the mighty secret; we will set forth Together unto the place where all have gone. 2724 End NOTES THE FEAST OF BACCHUS (From 2nd edition). NOTE I. This attempt to give _Menander_ to the english stage is based Upon his ‘Heautontimorumenos’ as we know it through _Terence_. That play, though marked by roman taste, is a work of high excellence; but as it stands would be unpresentable to a christian audience, chiefly on account of the story of _Antiphila’s_ exposure, which must deprive _Chremes_ of sympathy. And, since the liberties which _Terence_ took with _Menander_ cannot be determined, it was but mannerly to extend the necessary alteration, and suppress the slaves with their tedious and difficult intrigue. Thus altered, only about one-sixth of the latin original remains; and the play is perhaps not so sound in plot as _Terence_ made it, and is still weighted with the badness of his _Bacchis_ [_Gorgo_]; but it has the advantage of being more easily followed. The construction of the modern stage required the opening change. All that is beautiful in _Terence_, and therefore possibly most of what was _Menander’s_, has been carefully preserved; and some extant fragments of his have also found a lodging.