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So/! (afide) Our fovereign Lord Jupiter is a fly
jcompanion; he knows how to gild a bitter pill.
' Jap. From this aufpicious night, fhail rife an heir,
tCreat, like his fire, and like his mother fair:
Wrongs to redrefs, and tyrants to diflfeize;
Born for a world, that wants a Hercules.
JNIonflers, and monfler-men he fliall engage.
And toil, and ftruggle through an impious age.
Peace to his labours, fhall at length fucceed
And murm’ring men, unwilling to be freed, >
Shall be compelPd to happinefs, by need. J
[Jupiter is carried bank to heaven.
Omnes. We all congratulate Amphitryon.
> Merc. Keep your congratulations to yourlelves,
gentlemen: Tis a nice point, let^me tell you that;
;and the lefs that is faid of it, the better. Upon the
’’whole matter, if Amphitryon takes the favour of
Kupiter in patience, as from a god, he’s a good
eathen.
|. Sof. I muft take a little extraordinary pains to
■ bight, that my fpoufe may come even with her
3ady, and produce a fquire to attend on young
ijHercules, when he goes out to feek adventures;
that when his mailer kills a man, he may {land rea-
ly to pick his pockets; and pioufly relieve his aged
parents. Ah, Bromia, Bromia; if thou hadfl been
is handfome and as young as Phaedra ; I fay no
nore, but fome-body might have made his^fortune
is well as his mailer, and never the worfe man
aeither.
I For, let the wicked world fay what they pleafe.
The fair wife makes her hulband live at eafe :
The lover keeps him too; and but receives.
Like the remnants tYizt Amphitryon leaves:
’Tis true, the lady has enough ii> Itore,
To fatisfy thofe two, and ekej two more :
In fine, the man, who weighs the matter fully.
Would rather be the cuckold, than the cully.
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