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SYNCERASTUS
Just as though you could be silent on any matter.
875
MILPHIO
I’ll keep the matter more strictly secret for you than that which has been told to a dumb woman.
875
SYNCERASTUS
I could easily bring my mind to believe you there, if I did not know you.
MILPHIO
Trust me boldly at my own peril.
SYNCERASTUS
I shall trust you to my cost, and still I will trust you.
MILPHIO
Don’t you know that your master is a mortal enemy of my master?
MILPHIO
By reason of the love affair?
880
SYNCERASTUS
You are losing all your pains.
880
SYNCERASTUS
Because you are teaching one that has been taught.
880
MILPHIO
Why, then, do you doubt that my master will do a mischief to your master with pleasure, so far as he can do, with his deserving it? Then besides, if you lend some assistance, on that account he’ll be able to do it the more easily.
SYNCERASTUS
But I’m afraid of this, Milphio—
MILPHIO
What is it that you’re afraid of?
SYNCERASTUS
That while I’m preparing the plot against my master, I may be betrayed by yourself.
If my master knows that I’ve been talking to any individual, he’ll forthwith be making me from Syncerastus into Brokenlegs Brokenlegs: Crucifragium; a word coined for the occasion.
885
MILPHIO
On my word, never shall any mortal be made the wiser by me; only to my master alone will I tell it; and to him, too, in such a way that he shall not disclose that this matter originated in yourself.
SYNCERASTUS
I shall trust you at my peril, and yet I will trust you.
But do you keep this a secret to yourself.
890
