Scene IX
Phormio alone.
Well done, ’fore Heaven!
I’m overjoy’d to see so much good fortune
Fallen thus unexpectedly upon them:
I’ve now an admirable opportunity
To bubble the old gentlemen, and ease
Phædria of all his cares about the money;
So that he need not be oblig’d to friends.
For this same money, though it will be given,
Will yet come from them much against the grain;
But I have found a way to force them to’t.
—Now then I must assume a grander air,
And put another face upon this business.
—I’ll hence a while into the next by-alley,
And pop upon them as they’re coming forth.
—As for the trip I talk’d of to the fair,
I sha’n’t pretend to take that journey now.
Exit.