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to quell in you the flames that now consume me,
I offered to do and to say anything that would
please you, which I always did.
Philarco. Oh foolish Pallimacro, did you value
your freedom so little, you fool,
that you made yourself the slave of a woman?
Did you consider it, at all, a piety to make
such a humble slave your master? It is not
piety to destroy yourself for the pleasure of
someone else? Did you not know the things
that are promised are no more than he who has promised them?
If you do not give what is promised,
you get hate in return. And when you do give it,
that does not mean regard for you increases
All at once, you lost that which,