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.ALCESIMARCHUS Is that quite resolved upon by you in your heart?MELAENIS Why, in fact, I’m thinking about something else; i’ faith, I don’t at present catch these words of yours with my ears.ALCESIMARCHUS Not hear? Why, what are you doing?MELAENISPart of line 511 in Latin attributed to the prior speaker.Then do you give heed at once, that you may know what you are doing.ALCESIMARCHUS Then, so may the Gods and Goddesses of above and below, and of middle rankOf middle rank: Medioxumi. By these are meant the Demigods., and so may Juno the queen and the daughterAnd the daughter: In his confusion he calls Juno, the sister and wife of Jupiter, his daughter. of supreme Jove, and so may Saturn his uncle—MELAENIS I’ troth, his father—ALCESIMARCHUS And so may Ops the opulent, his grandam—