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72 AMPHITRYON.
Grip. Stir not a man of you to his afliftance.
Amp. Doft thou take part with my adulterefs
too, becaufe fhe is thy neice ?
Grip. I take part with nothing, but the law;'
and, to break the doors open, is to break the,
law.
Amp. Do thou command ’em, then.
Grip. I command nothing without my warrant;
and my clerk is not here to take his fees for draw-’j
ing it.
Amp. (afide.) The devil take all juftice-brokers: *
—I curfe him too when I have been hunting him 1
all over the town, to be my witnefs! But I’ll 1
bring foldiers to force open the doors, by my own ^
eommiffion. [Exit Amphitryon. (
Sof. Pox o’ thefe forms of law, to defeat a man f
of a dinner, when he’s fliarp let: ’tis againfl the
priviledge of a free-born ftomach ; and is no lefs
than fubverfion of fundamentals.
• [Jupiter above in the halcony. ^
fnp. Oh, my friends, I am forry I have made |
you wait fo long : you are Welcome; and the door l
lhall be opened to you, immediately.
[Exit Jupiter. «
Grip. Was not that Amphitryon ?
Sof. Why, who ftiould it be elfe ?
Grip. In all appearance it was he : but how got *
he thither?
Polyd. In fuch a trice too!
Tran. And after he had juft left us?
Grip. And fo much altered for the better, in his; v
humour 1 11
Sqf. Here’s fuch a company of foolilK queftions, f
when a man’s hungry: You had beft ftay dinner i
till he has prov’d himfelf to be Amphitryon in form
of law: But I’ll make Ihort work of that bufmefs: "•
for I’ll take mine oath ’tis he.
Grip.)