Know little of me. In the cruel embarrassment and anxiety that troubl

[Grell Politi]

Ith myself! CLE. Is this the way to express your grief at such an
outrage? SOS. I should never
have believed I could be so prudent. CLE. Instead of condemning
yourself
for such a perfidious trick, you rejoice at it to my face! SOS. Good
gracious! Gently, gently! If I appear pleased, you must believe that I
have a very strong private reason for it; without thinking of it, I
never did better than in using you in such a manner as I did. CLE. Are
you laughing at me, you villain? SOS. No, I am speaking openly to you.
I was in a wretched state. I had a certain load, which your words have
lifted from my soul. I was very apprehensive, and feared that I had
played the fool with
you. CLE. What is this fear? Come, let us

know what you mean. SOS. The doctors say that, when
one is drunk, one should abstain from one's wife, for, in that
condition we can only have children who are dull, and who cannot live.
Think, if my heart had not armed itself with coldness, what troubles
might have followed! CLE. I do not care a fig for doctors, with their
insipid reasonings. Let them rule those who are sick without wishing
to govern healthy
people. They meddle with too many affairs when they seek to rein in
our
chaste desires; in addition to the dog days, and their strict rules,
they
tell us a hundred ridiculous stories into the bargain. SOS. Gently.
CLE. No; I maintain theirs is a worthless conclusion: those reasons
come from idiotic brains. Neither wine nor time
ought t
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