part is revolted as well as you, the reft if they

had the leaft encouragement from abroad would fuffer the fame that you have. So that if no pther, yet this Example would manifeft that the greateft unhappinefs of Cities is the wicked-' nefs of their Rulers, for they are fo blinded with felfintereft, that they - will not defift, tho* they fee all things go to ruin, but with what they firft troubled, think to fettle affairs, conti¬ nuing Baniftiments, Sequeftrations, and unjufl . deaths j not confidering he is an ill Phyfician who prefcribes for a Remedy the caufe of the Di- feafe. But thofe are incurable -, you (hall do well to have a care of your felf, for all that ate here have but this hope left, if you aff wifely, to be freed from a heavy and grievous Tyranny.
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Strepfades^ PbidippideSj Sersjant.
Strejf.
H, oh,
Great Jove^ how long a night is this, how endlefs / Will’t ne*r be Day ? I heard the Cock again.
Yet ftill my Servants Ihore ; ’tis but of late a The ^thm- They durft do thus .• * curfe o’this War that Ans in time of awes me.
War with the fuffej- nae to beat the Rogues,
made My good Son bleeps too, wrapt o’re Head and Edift, that no Eats :
Man (houid Well, let me try to bear them company > beat hjs Ser- f cabnot, lb perplext and tortur’d
Sey ’fliould With charges, Bills for Horfe meat, Intereft : go over to the All for this hopeful Son, whp in’s curl’d locks. Enemy. -^choL Aids matches, keeps his Coach, and dreams of Horfes,
Whiift I (unhappy!) fee th’ unwelcome Moon Bring on the Quarter-Day, drid threaten Ufe- Money.
Boy, fnuff the Light, bring my Account-book hither, *'
That I may fumm my Debts and Interefl: :
Let’s fee, twelve Pound to ha ! twelve Pound
To '2afia^ how laid out f* to buy ^ Coppatia : Would I had paid this Eye for him. nid.^o\AniIo, they had , if You’r out of the way, begin again.
fa Their Horfes were named from the marks
a K, Copxtta t if an S, Samphoras, Scho],
Strep/. Ay, this.
This is the railery that ruins me j His very Sleeps are taken up with Horfes. 'Phid. How many cou'rles will the manage hold ?
Strep/ Many a weary courfe thou lead’ft thy -• Father:
Blit bow much more owe I than this to Pa/d?
Three pound PAmln 'ias for Chariot Wheels. , %
•Phid. Go Sirrah, take that Horfe and turn him out.
Strep/ Ay, thou haft turn’d me out of all my means.
Charges at Law will Eat me up, my Credi-- rors
Threaten to fue me to an Execution.
Phid. Why do you wake all Night, and tofs fo. Father ?
Strep/ I cannot bleep, the Scrivener doth fo bite me.
Phid. Yet let me reft a little longer.
Strep/. Do lb.
All thele will one day light upon thy head.
Curs’d be the hour when i ftrft law thy Mo- ther,
I liv’d before moft fweetly in the Country,
Well ftockt with Sheep and Bees, Olives and Grapes,
Till from the Megaclean houle took I This Niece of Megacles OMtoS thQ City ^
Well faftiion’d, highly bred, and richly Cloath- ed -,
We Married, as I laid, and lay together :
I fmelling ftrong of Drugs and grealie Wool 5 But (he of Unguents, Croctfs.^ wanton Kifles,
Of vain expence, dainties and Luxury j I will not tell the idle Life ftie led,
And yet fhe Ipun, that I have often told her, . . ' ^
Shewing this Coat , you Ipin a fair thread, Woman. . ^
Serv. Sir all theOyl i’th’ Lamp is wafted, sc/;. ppp, $. Strep/. Ha?
Why didft thou put in fuch a drunken Wiek ?
If thou wert near me I would beat thee.
Serv. Why Sir ? •
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SirepJ. Becaufe the VV iek is thicker than the ' Oyl.
Well, my good Wife, and I betwixt us got Atlaft this Son j about his name we differ’d ^ Shee’d have it fomething that belong’d to Horfes,
Callippides.^ Xcmtippus., or Charippus j I from his Grandfather ^ Ehidonides.
Long time we- wrangled thus, at laft agreed He ihould be called Ehidippidesh this Son She takes, and ftroaking kindly, thus inftrufls him,
" When thou art grown a Man, frequent the ‘ City,
‘ Follow the fafhion, keep a Coach and Horfes, ‘ Like Megacles thy Uncle. No, laid I,
‘ Go in a homely Coat, and drive thy Goats * A llonyCrag-^^^^^^ Phelleus., as.thy Father doth. gy p^acc in At- But my advice prevailed fo little on him, tica, ill fuch That HOW he walles my means in keeping Horfes, Go^t5 de.ighc Which all this night I have been thinking how Soli M. s. To remedy," and now have, found the way ^ To which could I perfwade him, I were happy. Bhidipp 'ides , Phidippides ,
Phid. Your Will Sir.
Strep/. Kifs me, give me thy Fland. j Phid. Here, Sir. ’ ^
Strep f. Doit love me ? '
Ph'id, By 'Neptune God of Horfes*
/ Strep/ Do not name
That God, for ’tis from him fprings all my ‘ Sorrow.
But if thou lov’ft me truly, heartily.
O Son, be rul’d.
Phid. In what Ihould I be r-uPd Strep/ Change without mPre delay thy courfe of Lite,
And do as I would have thee.
Phid. What is that ?
Strep/. But wilt thou do it ?
Phid. Yes by Bacchm will I.
Strep/. Come hither then,feeft thou that little door ?
e ’El/ a Tth That is the * Phrontifterhim of wile Souls, nov'oji Kad-i'i- Of learned Men, that tell us Heaven’s an Oven, Mzvoi (pgoy/- And we the Coals indofed in the wide Arch :
origt They, if we give ’em but a little Money, yccnoy 'TTga,- teach US to gain all caules, right or wrong. yfJLAToy. Phid. Who can thefe be ?
Schot. M. s. Strep/ Their names I know not ^ good
They are, and ^Dufied in continual Study.
Phid. Oh now I know the Wretches that
And might diipute our Itubborn Creditors Out of the debts I have incurr’d for thee ^ -They get not then a penny more than words.
Phid. I cannot do’t, were I fo lean and pale, I durll not look a Jockey in the Face.
Strep/. By Ceres then you flay with me no longer.
You, nor your Coach-Horle, nor your Sam- phoras.
But all together pack out of my doors.
My Uncle Megacles will neither lee Me nor my Horles want, fo long I care not.
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SCENE IL
Strep/adee, Scholar.
etg/flo'f
iiroroTgoipof,
Schal. M. 5.
you mean.
The meager, wan, proud, bare-foot, begging • Fellows,
Whole evil Genius’s are Socrates And Chccrephon. *
Strep/ reace , talk no more fo idly ^
If youd obey a Father, let me fee you Give o’re your Horles and turn one of thefe. Phid. Not I , by Bacchus.^ no though you _ Ihould tempt me
With all Breed of Racers.
Strep/. Dear Son be rul'd and learn.
Phid. What Ihould I learn >
Strep/. ’Tis faid they have two tongues, and one of thena
Able to prove any injullice reafon ;
Coulll thou but learn that Language, we were made,
Strep/. ^"T^Hough I have faild. I’ll not give i over thus.
But fay my Prayers, and go my lelf to School To learn this Art : But how Can I , by Age Dull and forgetful, reach fuch fubtleties ?
Yet on I Vv^ill, why lliould I doubt Ho, Friend. Schol. A mifchief on you, who’s that knocks at Door ?
Strep/. Strep/iades.^ Cecihnian Phtedd’s Son. Schol. ’Twas rudely done to knock fo hard, y’havemade
My labouring Brain mifcarry of a Notion. Strep/. Forgive me, I was bred far off i’th’ Country :
But pray what Notion wash that prov’d Abor¬ tive I
■ Schol. ’Tis Lawful to difcover that to none But Fellow-Scholars.
Strep/. Then you may tell me,
For I come hither to be one of you.
Schol. I will i fo will value’t as a Myftery. Socrates t’other day asked Charephon How many of her feet a Flea could leap,
For one by chance had bit Cheraphons Eye-brow, And leapt from thence upon the Head of So^
crates.
Strep/. How could he meafure this ?
Sehol. Moll dexteroully.
Both Feet o’th’ Flea he dipt in melting wax. Which flraic congeals to Shooes j thefe he plucks off.
And with them more exactly meafures it. Strep/. Great Jupiter., how fubtle are thele Wits !
Schol. If you fhould hear their other Spe¬ culations.
You would fay fo indeed.
Strep/. Prdy what was that ?
Schol. This Chicrephon the Sphettian ask’d him once.
If a Gnat founded from her Mouth or Tail. Strep/. And what faid he.^
Schol. It had a flrait thin Gut,
At end of it a Bladder, into which The Air being forc’d, founded in breaking forth.
Strep/. Then I perceive that a Gnat’s Tail’s a Trumpet ^
How bleft is this Anatomift of Gnats !
Sure he can hide himlelffrom purblind juftice. That knows fo well thele dark inteftine ways. Why Ihould we cry up Thales any longer ?
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”^ome open me your Ehrontifiermm .. ^
And quickly let me iee this ^
* The' School X tong to learn, Open the Door r--'^ O Her-
difcovered-, ' ,
ilj'fetS^po- What ftrange Beads have we here ? • fturcs: 5cMWhydo you wonder?
tes hanging in Whom do they look like think you ?
Like the poor
T bkiuM. i^acedamonum Captives ta’n at 1 2ylus. ^ ^
Why look they fo intently on the Ground ? Thefe feek out things that appertain to Earth ! Oh they feek Leeks trouble your felves no more, Friends, a.
For I know better where are good and great ones.
Schol. Come let’s go in.
5/r^y^Xet’sday a little while and talk with ’em. Schol. No, no, they .cannot long endure the air. StrepJ. What’s tliis, fpt Heavens fake fay ?. Schol. This is Aftroridmy.
Strep/. And this '
Schol. Geometry.
Strep/. But what is it good for ?
Schol. TomeafureLand.
-Strep/. What, Arable, or Failure Schol. No, the whole Earth.
Strep/. A pretty Jed indeed.
That were a mighty help to Husbandmen.
Schol. Hero’s all the World, and this is Athens. Strep/. How ?
I’ll fcarce believe that •, what’s become o’ch’ •Judges? _ r- Where the Cicynnians my Country-men ?
Schol. Herej AAsEubcea j fee how far ’tis dretch’d.
Strep/./Y/\mo^ dretcht in pieces betwixt us, And fericles *, and where is Lacedamon ? Schol. Here.
Strep/. ’Tis too nigh us, why with all yohr • Skill
Do you not help to thrud it farther off? Schol. It is not polTible.
Strep/. No ? you will rue it then.
But what Man’s that hangs yonder in the Basket ?
Schol. That’s he?
Strep/. He, what he ?
Schol. Socrates.
Strep/. How, Socrates ?
Call him.
Schol. Call him your lelf, I’m not at leifure.
SCENE III.
Strep/adeSj Socrates,
Strep/. TTQ Socrates.
JLjL Socr. ^ Why dodthou call me
cf Slkr.us ^
{whom Socr et- n. C u i Ji i u t.
us refembled Strep. Firft I would gladly know what thou
for deforini- dod there ?
7 ' c’ T ^ i*th’ Air, and gaze upon the Sun.
’ Strep/. Why in a Basket dod thou view the Gods,
Not from the Ground ?
Strep/. I could not elevate My thoughts to contemplation of thefe My- deries,
Unlefs my IntelleO: were thus fulpended, Where my thin thoughts melt into Air (their likenefs)
Stood I upon the ground, I Ihould find nothmg,
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Though I fought ne’er fo ftridlly up and down,
For the magnetick vertue of the Earth Would draw away the humour of my Brain,
Jud as we lee in Nofe-lhaart. ' ""
Strep/. How, how’s that ? -
Doth the Brain draw the humour out of Nole- Imart ? •
Come down, fweet Socrates.^ apd teach _-jne quickly
The knowledge of thofe things for whichl catne.
Socr, What earned thou for ?
Strep/. To learn the Art of Speaking. ■
With debts andufury I’m torn in pieces,
Tod up and down, forc’d to pawn allniy Goods.
Socr. On what occafiondid you run id debt?
Strep/.^Y Horles eaten into this confumption j And I would learn of you other Language Which teacheth Men to pay nothing : for which By all the Gods I’ll give you what you’ll ask.
Socr^Y all what Gods? we do not here allow Thofe Gods the City worlhips.
Strep/. How then fwear you, ' ^
By Copper Farthings like the Byzantines} \
Socr. Wouldd thou be. skilful'in Divine . .1.
. affairs ?
Strep/. By JoveQE any fuch there be) I wou’d.
Socr. You mud be then aquainted with the Clouds.
Our reverend Goddelles.
St rep f. With all my heart.
Socr. Sit down upon this Couch then.
Strep/- Well. . .. ...
Socr. Now take This Garland.
Strep/. Why a Garland? alas, Socrates.,
D’ye mean (like to Sacrifice me.^
Socr. No, thefe are Rites that every one per¬ forms
At his admiflion.
Strep/. But what diall I gain by’t ?
Socr. Thou lhalt be made mod voluble in Speech,
A very Rattle, bolting words words as fine as Flower.
Strep/ Th’art right by Jove.^ I lhall be pow¬ dered.
.St7cr.Silence,oldman,and liden to our Prayer.
‘ Great King, unbounded Air, whofe Arms are ‘ hurl’d
‘ About the furface of this pendant World,
‘Bright iEther, reverend Clouds, that from your Sphear
‘ Thunder and Lightning dart,rife and appear.
Strep/. Not yet, not yet, till I have wrapt my felf
Clofe in my Cloak , led I be wet : twas ill That I forgat to bring my Riding-hood.
Socr. ‘ Your power great Clouds, make to this Suppliant known
‘ Whether now dated on Olympus Throne,
‘ Or whether you your fecret Revels keep ‘In the wide Gardens of your Sire the Deep.*
‘ Or of his flowing Chrydal feven mouth’d Wile.,
‘ In golden Ewers wantonly beguile :
‘ Or in Mauritian Marfhes Teep your Court 5 ‘ Or on the fnowy top of Mimas Iport.
‘ Come, to our fervent Vows propitious be,
‘ Grace with your Prefence our Solemnity.
' We humid fleeting Deities, chorus from
‘ The briglit unbounded Clouds thus rife O ‘
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‘ From, our old. Sire, tlie grumbling Flood, '■‘Above the talleft Hill of Wood,
‘ To thofe high Watch-Towers, whence we may ‘ TEeiiollowed fruitful ground furvey j ‘ Rivers that in foft murmurs glide, _
‘ And the loud Seas re^^Uious tide*,
‘ From thence Heavehs'feftlefs Eye dilplays ‘ The. fplendour. of his glorious rays,
‘ Chafing aTdulTy mlRs, that we ‘ In fhapes divine may Mortals fee.
'"'Socr. Thanks reverend Clouds for favouring ^thus our Prayer..
Did you not hear ’em fpeak in Thunder to us ^
! Stre^. .Great Clouds I worJfhip too, but am k'Io frighted,
r Icarce can hold from anfwering your Thunder.
.J^eft not jprofanely in fuch facred Rites: Peace,, for the fwarm of Gods come fing . ‘ ing..
Come Virgin MiflrefTes of fliowers, ‘Let’s vifir ? alias pregnant Bowers ,
* The far renown’d Qcropian Plain
Schol. M. S.
* (ivflaj'ox.k ‘ Where fiiines the ^ Eleufiman Fane, at £- c ^Vhke are the moft retir’d aboads,
M were ceJe- ‘ Statues and Temples of the Gods : braced the my- ‘ Where Altars blaze, with Incenfe, where * fleries of ce-‘ TlieHpiy d.ay lafls all the Year *,
‘Where the brisk Graces every Spring, wcr^a'dmitced/ And Youths with Virgins Dance and Sing. HOC hran- ’ St7'epf. Tell me good what things
gers ; if any gre thel'e • .
cd bhem^to'^T finely Are they Ladies ?
Pcrfon not ini- ^ocr. No,
dated, they They’re the Deities of Idle Men; were both put From thefe we have our Senfe, Difcourle, and
.oDMth.
Our high Capricio’s,’ and elaborate whimfeys. Strep/. My Soul, my thought did leap, while they were fpeaking.
And now moft fubtly would difpute of fmoak. Sharply confute opinion with opinion ;
Oh how I long to fee them once again.
Soc. Look yonder, towards Earnes.^ look how gently
They glide to Earth.
Strep/ Where ? fhew me^
. Socr. See in Shoals
They creep into the Caverns of the Mountain. Strep/ What things are thefe I cannot yet behold ’em,
Socr. There in the Entrance, look.
Strep/ Yet I fcarce fee them.
Socr. Either thou feeft. them now , or thou art blind.
Strep/. I do by ^/oDe.^ great Clouds, for you hold all !
Socr.. Didft thou not know thele Deities be¬ fore.^
Strep/. Not I, I thought them only mills and vapours.
Socr. Thou kneweffc not then thole who maintain the Sophills.
Strep/. If thefe be Clouds, how comes it that they look
Like Women ? For the Clouds have no fuch Shape.
Socr. No, what lhape have they tlien ? Strep/ I know hot jullly *,
They look like flying Fleeces, but by Jove., Nothing at all like Women y thefe have Noles.
ill
Socr. ^ Anfwer to what I ask.
Strep/. Ask me quickly.
Socr. Didfl ere behold a Cloud lhap’d like a qu^mon.^ Centaur,
A Leopard, Bull, or Wolf? • - .
Strep/. I have, what then . ;
Socr. The Clouds Can take what form' they •
lift, as When ■ ' .
They fee a hairy Fellow curl’d like Qkus;
They mock' his madnels in a Centaur’s lhape.
Strep/. And' when they fee* one that defrauds or plunders
The' Commonwealth, like Sinoh., what then do they ^ '
Socr. They do refemble him, turn ravenous Wolves,
This was the reafon yefterday, when they Beheld Clconymi/s., they lied like Deer : Coward.
And feeing- 1 Uifthenes^diQ now turn’d Women.
Si rep/ Great Queens, if you are defign’d to ^ fpeak to Mortals,
Make me acquainted with your rumbling voice.
Chor. ‘ All hail old Man, who doft on Wif- don^prey,
‘ And thou- the Prieft of liibtle trifles lay,
‘ What wouldft thou have with us, to none but thee, - , ■ ' ■
‘ Of all the Meteor Sophifts thus ftoop we ;
‘ Save to him' as grave and wife,
‘ To thee, becaufe thou walk’ft upright, thy Eyes
‘ Rowling on every fide, thy look fevere ’
‘ And barefoot many miferies doft bear.
Strep/. Good Heavens, what voice is thisj how ftrange and ftutely ?
Socr. Thefe are our GoddeflTes, the reft are toys.
Strep/ Is then Olympian Jove no Deity ^
Socr. What Jove., There’s no luch thing-, meet fancy.
Strep/ How ?
Whence then proceeds all Rain ? * vvhcreof
Socr. Only from thefe. Jupiter ms
Didft thou ere lee a Ihower without them ^ take particular The Clouds away, and Heaven mult rain fair Weather.
Strep/'. By Ehtebits thou haft clear’d it well - ° rill now *
. thought Jove made Water through a fieye.
3ut whence comes Thunder ? when I’m fick,
^ that frights me.
Thefe thunder as they tumble up and down.
Flow can that be ?
Socr, t When they are full of water.
By their own weight driven upon one another, t Emending So- They roar and break. crates as igno-
Strep/. But who is it that drives them,
Is not that Jove ^ phy.
Socr. No, an attherial Whirlwind.
Strep/. A Whirlwind, hum.' I knew not that till now.
But whence comes Lightning then,that glittering .
Fire
Which terrifies and burns us ? Jupiter Ufeth to dart this down on Perjur‘d Men.
Socr. And how fthou plegmatick dull Sa¬ turnine, )
If darted on the Perjur’d, how comes
Theorm^ and Qeonymus to Icape it
No, his own Temple, or the Stman Promontory,
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thofe
thefe
Or Iturdy Oaks he ibrikes, did they e’r him ?
Did the Oak e‘r forfwear it felf^
Strepf. I know not :
That which you fay feems reafon . then
Is Lightning ^
Socr. When the winds ate mut up clofe, They fwell the Clouds like Bladders laft
Break out with violence and horrid noiles j And by contrition kindle one another.
But thou who fearchefl: amongft us for wifdom How happy wilt thou be above all Grecians If thou conceive well, and remember, and Canft fufe much, and never wilt be tired Standing or vyalking, nor have fenfe of troll, Nor care for dining, and retrain from Wine, From exercifes,,and all other toys.
Sirepf. O for a folid Soul reftlefs with cares. Sparing, felf- torturing, one that can feaft Upon a difli of Herbs, you never could Be better fitted ^ a meet Anvile I. ,
Socr. Doll thou believe no God biit we teach?
The Chaos, Clouds and Tongue, only three.
Strepf. ril not fo much as Ipeak of any other, •Much lefs bellow an Offering on their Altars. Char. ‘ Say boldly then, fay what is thy re- quell.
For if thou honour us thou flralt be blefl. Strepf. Great Queens I fue for a litiall mat- ' ter, that
I may out-talk all Greeks a hundred Furlongs.
Qjor. ‘ To thee alone this gift we will allow,
‘ None fpeak fuch mighty Sentences as Thou.
Strepf I do not care for rnighty fentences.
But fubtle ones to cheat rhy Creditors.
Chor. ‘ It is not much thou askeff and llialt obtain it,
‘ Learn of our Minillers and thou fhalt gain it Strepf. I fhall, relying on your promile forc’d
By want, Cvppaiia and a lucklefs match.
Now let ’em ule me as they lilt, beat, llarve me,
Burn, freeze, or flea me, fo I efcape my debts ;
I care not though Men call me Impudent, Smooth-tongud, audacious, petulant, abomi¬ nable.
Forger ot w'ords and lies, contentious Barre- tour.
Old, winding, bragging, tefiy, crafty Fox.
Socr. Said like a Man of Courage: if thoU Learn
Of me, thy fame Ihall fpread wide as the
Strepf Whatlhallldo?
Socr. Thou lhalt fpend all thy time With me ! a Life the happieft in the World* Strepf I long to fee that day.
Socr: Thy door (hall always Be throng’d with Clients that will come thee
For Qounfel, and difeourfe of Cafes worth I'he vfealth of Kingdoms, to thy hearts defire. GW, ‘ Try this old Mani firftfee if he be ‘fit^
Put him to th’tell,and found the depth of’s wit.
allv Xenopbm and Plato.
wrong Socr. Come tell me no^v your dilpofition,
That when I know it I may fit my Machines Accordingly.
Strepf You wall not undermine me.
Socr. No, I would know if you have any memory.
Strepf. Yes, when another owes me any thing,
I can .remember very well, but what and at ;! owe my felf. I’m ready to forget.
Socr. Haft thou a natural faculty in fpeaking ?
Strepf.. No, I can mar words fooner far than make ’em.
Socr. How wilt thou learn then ?
Strepf. Fear me not, I tell you Well, when I make Ibme Learned deep Dif¬ eourfe.
Socr. tYou muftbe fure to catch’t up pre- fAs theScho^ lently. lars of i>ocrates
Strepf What, muft I fiiap at Learning like a Dog ? !
Wr.This is a very Fool, an unknown Clown ^ am afraid old Man thou wilt need whipping.
What if thou Ihouldft be beaten?
Strepf Then I am beaten.
Socr. But what woiildft do ?
Strepf. I would take witnefs on’t And fue them on an Aflion of Battery.
Socr. Off with your Cloak.
Strepf. Why, how have I offended ?
Socr . No j but our Orders admit none but naked.
Strepf. I came not hither to fteal any ^hing.
Socr. Down with your Cloak, why doft thOu trifle.^
Strepf. Now
Tell me if I prove apt and diligent,
Of all ,y6ur Scholars who (hall I come riigheft?
Socr. Thou mayft perhaps he like our Chare- phon.
Strepf. Alas, alas ! what an Anatoiriy ?
Socr. No, no : But if thou wilt be any thing .
Follow- me without more delay.
Strepf I want
A Cake for your Cerberus-., I go methinks As if ’twere into the Trophonian Cave.
Socr. On, on, why ftayeft thou gazing at the door ?
Chor. Go, for thy courage bleft whofe aged /mind
‘ To wifdom foars, and leaves the young be¬ hind.
ACT IT.
Socrates., Strepjiaies.
to
Socr. T> y Chaos, and this Air I breath,! never Met any thing fo ftupid as this fel-
' low ,
So clownifti and oblivious •, eafie toys He learns not half fo fall as he forgets ’em,
I’ll call him forth ^ what, ho Strepjiades Come but and bring your Bed along with you. Strepf. The fleas will hardly let me bring my felf.
Socr. Quick, down with*t there j and mark what I fay to you.
Strepf. I am ready.
Socr. What have you moft mind to learn. Meafures, or Verfe, or Rhyme ?
Strepf, By all means Meafures i-
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