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Exeunt_ ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I. _Enter DEMIPHO and CHREMES._ DEM. Well,
have you brought your daughter with you, Chremes, for whom you went to
Lemnos? CHREM. No. DEM. Why not? CHREM. When her mother found that I
staid here longer than usual, and at the same time the age of the girl
did not suit with my delays, they told me that she, with all her family,
set out in search of me. DEM. Pray, then, why did you stay there so
long, when you had heard of this? CHREM. Why, faith, a malady detained
me. DEM. From what cause? Or what {was it}? CHREM. Do you ask me? Old
age itself is a malady. However, I heard that they had arrived safe,
from the captain who brought them. DEM. Have you heard, Chremes, what
has happened to my son in my absence? CHREM. 'Tis that, in fact, that
has embarrassed me in my plans. For if I offer my daughter in marriage
to any person that's a stranger, it must all be told how and by whom I
had her. You I knew to be fully as faithful to me as I am to myself; if
a stranger shall think fit to be connected with me by marriage, he will
hold his tongue, just as long as good terms exist between us: but if he
takes a dislike to me, he'll be knowing more than it's proper he should
know. I am afraid, too, lest my wife should, by some means, come to know
of it; if that is the case, it {only} remains for me to shake myself[63]
and leave the h