To that calling how contrasted
Are delights, delirious tumults,
Are love’s transports and its raptures,
Which you should resist?  Recall too,
Can you not? the aid heaven granted
When you helped yourself, and prayed for
Its assistance:  were you not guarded
By it when a sweet voice sung,
When a keen wit glowed and argued,
When the instrument was silenced,
When the tongue was forced to stammer,
Until now, when with free will
You succumb to the enchantment
Of one fair and fatal face,
Which hath done to you such damage
That ’t will work your final ruin,
If the trial longer lasteth?—­

Chrysanthus. 
Oh! my father, oh! my teacher,
Hear me, for although the charges
Brought against me thus are heavy,
Still I to myself have ample
Reasons for my exculpation. 
Since you taught me, you, dear master,
That the union of two wills
In our law is well established. 
Be not then displeased, Carpophorus . . . 
(Aside.) Heavens! what have I said?  My father!

(Enter Polemius.)

Polemius (aside). 
Ah! this name removes all doubt. 
But I must restrain my anger,
And dissemble for the present,
If such patience Jove shall grant me:—­
How are you to-day, Chrysanthus? (aloud.

Chrysanthus. 
Sir, my love and duty cast them
Humbly at your feet:  (aside, Thank heaven,
That he heard me not, this calmness
Cannot be assumed).

Polemius. 
                     I value
More than I can say your manner
Towards my son, so kind, so zealous
For his health.

Carpophorus. 
                 Heaven knows, much farther
Even than this is my ambition,
Sir, to serve you:  but the passions
Of Chrysanthus are so strong,
That my skill they overmaster.

Polemius. 
How?

Carpophorus. 
      Because the means of cure
He perversely counteracteth.

Chrysanthus. 
Ah! sir, no, I ’ve left undone
Nothing that you have commanded.

Carpophorus. 
No, not so, his greatest peril
He has rashly disregarded.

Polemius. 
I implicitly can trust you,
Of whose courage, of whose talents
I have been so well informed,
That I mean at once to grant them
The reward they so well merit.

Carpophorus. 
Sir, may heaven preserve and guard you.

Polemius. 
Come with me; for I desire
That you should from my apartments
Choose what best doth please you; I
Do not doubt you ’ll find an ample
Guerdon for your care.

Carpophorus. 
                        To be
Honoured in this public manner
Is my best reward.

Polemius (aside). 
                    The world
Shall this day a dread example
Of my justice see, transcending
All recorded in time’s annals. (Exeunt Polemius and Carpophorus.)