Languages & literature > Amphitryon,or, The two Sosias

AMPHITRYON. 75
Merc. Yet again profanely ufing my proper
name?
Sof. I did not mean myfelf: I was thinking of
' another Sofia, a poor fellow, that was once of my
• acquaintance, unfortunately baniih’d out of doors,
: when dinner was juft coming upon the table. .
Enter Phaedra.
Phad. Sofia, you and I muft—Blefs me ! What
have we here, a couple of you, or do I lee double ?
Sof. I would fain bring it about, that I might
| make one of them: But he’s unreafonablc and will
I needs incorporate me, and fwallow me whole jinto
j-himfelf. If he would be content to be hut one
• and -a half, ’twould never grieve me.
Merc. ’Tis a perverfe raical: I kick him, and
l) cudgel him to no purpofe: for ftilf he’s obftinate
to flick to me: and I can never beat him out of
I my relemblance.
Pbced. AVhich of you two is Sofia ? For t’other
j. muft be the devil. ..
Sof. You had beft afk him that, has play’d, the
devil with my back and fides.
Merc. You had beft aik him who gave you the
. gold goblet?
Pheed. No, that’s already given: but he ihall
f be my Sofia, that will give me futh another.
* Merc. I find you have been interlopping, iirrah.
Sof No, indeed, fir; I only promited her a gold
* thimble: which was as much as comes to my pro-
: • portion of being Sofia.
Phaed. This is no Sofia for my money : beat him
away t’other Sofia.- he grows infufferable.
I' Sof. (afide.) Would I were valiant, that I might
ii beat him aivay; and fucceed him at the dinner;
for a pragmatical fon of a whore, as he. is.r-—
Merc. What’s that you are muttering betwhtt
■ your teeth, of a fon of a whore, iirrah?
G 2 Sof.