Agreed. PHAEDRIA He quite deserves it. He quite deserves it. Cooke has the following appropriate remark: I can not think that this Play, excellent as it is in almost all other respects, concludes consistently with the manners of gentlemen; there is a meanness in Phaedria and Chaerea consenting to take Thraso into their society, with a view of fleecing him, which the Poet should have avoided.