_DEMEA alone._
Jove, what a life! what manners! what distraction!
A bride just coming home without a portion;
A Music-Girl already there in keeping:
A house of waste; the youth a libertine;
Th' old man a dotard!--'Tis not in the pow'r
Of Providence herself, howe'er desirous,
To save from ruin such a family.