SYR. I came to her at the {proper} moment, which in all things is of the first importance: for there I found a certain wretched captain soliciting her favors: she artfully managed the man, so as to inflame his eager passions by denial; and this, too, that it might be especially pleasing to yourself. But hark you, take care, will you, not to be imprudently impetuous. You know your father, how quick-sighted he is in these matters; and I know you, how unable you are to command yourself. Keep clear of words of double meaning,[47] your sidelong looks, sighing, hemming, coughing, tittering. CLIT. You shall have to commend {me}. SYR. Take care of that, please. CLIT. You yourself shall be surprised at me. SYR. But how quickly the ladies have come up with us! CLIT. Where are they? (_SYRUS stands before him._) Why do you hold me back? SYR. For the present she is nothing to you. CLIT. I know it, before my father; but now in the mean time-- SYR. Not a bit the more. CLIT. Do let me. SYR. I will not let you, I tell you. CLIT. But only for a moment, pray. SYR. I forbid it. CLIT. Only to salute her. SYR. If you are wise, get you gone. CLIT. I’m off. {But} what’s he {to do}? (_Pointing at CLINIA._) SYR. He will stay {here}. CLIT. O happy man! SYR. Take yourself off. (_Exit CLITIPHO._ SCENE IV. _Enter BACCHIS and ANTIPHILA at a distance._ BACCHIS. Upon my word, my {dear} Antiphila, I commend you, and think you fortunate in having made it your study that your manners should be conformable to those good looks {of yours}: and so may the Gods bless me, I do not at all wonder if every man is in love with you. For your discourse has been a proof to me what kind of disposition you possess. And when now I reflect in my mind upon your way of life, and {that} of all of you, in fact, who keep the public at a distance from yourselves, it is not surprising both that you are of that {disposition}, and that we are not; for it is your interest to be virtuous; those, with whom we are acquainted, will not allow us {to be so}. For {our} lovers, allured {merely} by our beauty, court us {for that}; when that has faded, they transfer their affections elsewhere; {and} unless we have made provision in the mean time for the future, we live in destitution. {Now} with you, when you have once resolved to pass your life with one man whose manners are especially kindred to your own, those persons[48] become attached to you. By this kindly feeling, you are truly devoted to each other; and no calamity can ever possibly interrupt your love. ANTI. I know nothing about other women: I’m sure that I have, indeed, always used every endeavor to derive my own happiness from his happiness. CLIN. (_apart, overhearing ANTIPHILA._) Ah! ’tis for that reason, my Antiphila, that you alone have now caused me to return to my native country; for while I was absent from you, all {other} hardships which I encountered were light to me, save the being deprived of you.