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Pam. Eho! thou honest man!

Do you acknowledge where your counsels led me?

Dav. I labour now to extricate—

Pam. To extricate?

Dav. Truly so, Pamphilus.

Pam. Ay—even as before.

Dav. Not so, I trust, but with a better fortune.

Pam. Think you—I will believe you, furcifer!

Can you restore a thing that [sic]'s lost and gone?

Oh! from a state of happiness, to be

Cast down to depths of married misery!

I told you it would be so.

Dav. You did so.

Pam. And what do you deserve.

Dav. Deserve the cross—

Grant me a moment, let me think a while—

Devize some plan.

Pam. I have no leisure now

To punish, nor to think of punishment.

I must see to myself—my own affairs

Have now the sway o'er me and mastery.