SOCRATES.
Let her talk, and trust to me for your happiness.
XANTIPPE.
Let me talk indeed! I shall talk and do too, I assure you. You are a pretty one to be sure, with your wisdom, your familiar demon, your irony, and all your nonsense that signifies nothing, to trouble yourself about matrimony: you are a good sort of a man, but you really know nothing of the world; happy is it for you that I am able to govern you. Come, Aglae, I must settle you as soon as possible: And you, sir, there, that seem as if you were thunderstruck, I have taken care of you too: Drixa is the woman for you: you will both of you thank me by and by: I shall have done it all in a minute: I am very expeditious: let us lose no time therefore, by rights it should have been all over before this.
SOCRATES.
My children, don't thwart or provoke her, but pay her all kind of deference: we must comply with since we can't mend her: it is the triumph of reason to live well with those who have none.
End of the First Act.
ACT II.SCENE I.
SOCRATES, SOPHRONIMUS.
SOPHRONIMUS.
Divine Socrates, I know not how to believe my own happiness: how can Aglae, whose father died in
