Act IV, Scene VI

Enter LYCONIDES and EUNOMIA, from the house of MEGADORUS.

LYC. I've told you all, mother; as well as I do myself, you understand all about the daughter of Euclio. Now, I do entreat you, my mother, make mention of it to my uncle, and I now unask of you, mother, that which before I entreated of you, to conceal this from Megadorus.

EUN. You know, yourself, that what you desire to be done, I desire, and I trust that I shall obtain this of my brother; and the reason is good, if 'tis so as you say, that in a drunken fit you debauched this damsel.

LYC. Could I, my mother, tell a falsehood in your presence?

(Phaedra cries out in labour, in Euclio's house.) I die, my nurse; my pangs are coming on! I entreat thee for thy protection, Juno Lucina!

LYC. Ah! my mother, I see a more convincing proof for you; she's crying aloud--she's in the pangs of labour.

EUN. Come in-doors here, with me, my son, to my brother, that I may obtain a grant from him of that which you beg of me.

LYC. Go; I'll follow you this instant, mother. (Eunomia goes into the house.) But my servant, Strobilus, I wonder where he is, whom I ordered to wait here for me. Now I reflect with myself, if he's lending me his assistance, it isn't fair that I should be angry with him. I'll go in-doors, where they are sitting in judgment upon my life. (Goes into the house of Megadorus.)