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8 has been impossible to induce her even to go back and live with Andronicus, although he too is a devoted Christian. How unlikely it is, then, that she will fall in with your absurd plans!

CALL. Well, I did expect some sort of comfort from you, but instead you drive me to despair.

FRIENDS. Pretence is only a form of deceit, and flattery a selling of the truth.

CALL. But as you deny me your assistance, I shall approach her myself directly, and win her affections by fair speech.

FRIENDS. You will not win her.

CALL. Then if so it will be a case of 'Since Fate forbids'-

FRIENDS. We shall see.

In Drusiana's lodging. Callimachus is admitted to see Drusiana.

CALLIMACHUS. What I have to say to you, Drusiana, comes from the bottom of my heart - it is a matter of Love!