PAM. I don’t know; except that I must have been under the displeasure of the Gods, for me to have listened to him. CHAR. Is this the fact, Davus? DAV. It is the fact. CHAR. (_starting._) Ha! What do you say, {you} villain? Then may the Gods send you an end worthy of your deeds. Come now, tell me, if all his enemies had wished him to be plunged into a marriage, what advice but this could they have given? DAV. I have been deceived, but I don’t despair. CHAR. (_ironically._) I’m sure of that. DAV. This way it has not succeeded; we’ll try another. Unless, perhaps, you think that because it failed at first, this misfortune can not now possibly be changed for better luck. PAM. Certainly not; for I quite believe that if you set about it, you will be making two marriages for me out of one. DAV. I owe you this, Pamphilus, in respect of my servitude, to strive with hands {and} feet, night and day; to submit to hazard of my life, to serve you. It is your part, if any thing has fallen out contrary to expectation, to forgive me. What I was contriving has not succeeded; still, I am using all endeavors; or, do you yourself devise something better, {and} dismiss me. PAM. I wish to; restore me to the position in which you found me. DAV. I’ll do {so}. PAM. But it must be done directly. DAV. But the door of Glycerium’s house here makes a noise.[77] PAM. {That’s} nothing to you. DAV. (_assuming an attitude of meditation._) I’m in search of-- PAM. (_ironically._) Dear me, what, now at last? DAV. Presently I’ll give you what I’ve hit upon. SCENE III. _Enter MYSIS from the house of GLYCERIUM._ MYS. (_calling at the door to GLYCERIUM within._) Now, wherever he is, I’ll take care that your own Pamphilus shall be found for you, and brought to you by me; do you only, my life, cease to vex yourself. PAM. Mysis. MYS. (_turning round._) Who is it? Why, Pamphilus, you do present yourself opportunely to me. My mistress charged me to beg of you, if you love her, to come to her directly; she says she wishes to see you. PAM. (_aside._) Alas! I am undone; this dilemma grows apace! (_To DAVUS._) For me and her, unfortunate persons, now to be tortured this way through your means; for I am sent for, because she has discovered that my marriage is in preparation. CHAR. From which, indeed, how easily a respite could have been obtained, if he (_pointing to DAVUS_) had kept himself quiet. DAV. (_ironically to CHARINUS._) Do proceed; if he isn’t sufficiently angry of his own accord, do you irritate him. MYS. (_to PAMPHILUS._) Aye faith, that is the case; and for that reason, poor thing, she is now in distress. PAM. Mysis, I swear by all the Gods that I will never forsake her; not if I were to know that all men would be my enemies in consequence. Her have I chosen for mine; she has fallen to my lot; our feelings are congenial; farewell they, who wish for a separation between us; nothing but Death separates her from me. MYS. I begin to revive.