For all my kindness, paid me back unkindness.
⁠Her. I hear thee raging in a mighty madness.
⁠Pro. If it be madness to abhor my foes,
May I be mad!
⁠Her.⁠If thou wert prosperous,
Thou wouldst not be endurable.
⁠Pro. ⁠Alas!
⁠Her. Jove knoweth not that word.
⁠Pro. ⁠Maturing Time²⁴
Teacheth all things.
⁠Her.⁠Yet thou hast learn'd no wisdom.
⁠Pro. None—since I commune with a slave like thee.
⁠Her. Of all our Sire demands, thou utt'rest nought.
⁠Pro. In very sooth, I owe him gratitude!
⁠Her. Thou tauntest me, as if I were a child.
⁠Pro. No child thou art, but weaker than a child,
If thou expect to gather aught from me.
Nor is there chast'ning, nor device, whereby
Jove shall constrain me to reveal these things,