Will you allow me to be forsworn?MELAENIS Yes, and a little more easily than myself and my affairs to go to ruin, and my daughter to be trifled with. Begone! go seek where there is confidence enough in your oaths; here now, with us, Alcesimarchus, you’ve renounced your titleRenounced your title: Confregisti tesseram. Literally, you have broken your tally, or ticket. These were pieces of wood cut in half, and fitting each other. They were exchanged by friends, and denoted their readiness, on the presenting thereof, to entertain each other with hospitality. She means that Alcesimarchus has broken his word, and has lost his right to be considered as a friend. See the Pœnulus, l. 1047. to our friendship. ALCESIMARCHUS Make trial of me but once. MELAENIS I have made that trial full oft; which I lament has been so made.ALCESIMARCHUS Give her back to me. MELAENIS Under new circumstances I’ll use an old proverb: What I have given, I wish I had not given; what’s left, that I shall not give.ALCESIMARCHUS Won’t you restore her again to me?MELAENIS Answer yourself for me.ALCESIMARCHUS You won’t restore her then?MELAENIS You know the whole of my resolution already.