In infancy, has still increas’d with age;

Now by your only daughter, and my son,

Whose preservation wholly rests on you;

Let me entreat this boon: and let the match

Which should have been, still be.

Chremes. Why, why entreat?

Knowing you ought not to beseech this of me.

Think you that I am other than I was,

When first I gave my promise? If the match

Be good for both, e’en call them forth to wed.