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And is she my countrywoman?

TRACHALIO

So I think.

PLESIDIPPUS

And is she to marry me?

TRACHALIO

So I suspect.

PLESIDIPPUS

Prithee, do you reckon that he will betroth her to me?

TRACHALIO

So I reckon So I reckon: For the sake of mere nonsense, Trachalio begins to trifle with his master, by giving him the answer of censeo to everything he says; just as he gave his repeated answers of licet to Daemones before leaving.

PLESIDIPPUS

Well, shall I congratulate her father too upon his finding her? 1270

TRACHALIO

So I reckon. 1270

PLESIDIPPUS

Well, her mother too?

TRACHALIO

So I reckon.

PLESIDIPPUS

What then do you reckon?

TRACHALIO

What you ask me, I reckon.

PLESIDIPPUS

Tell me then how much do you reckon it at?

TRACHALIO

What I, I reckon—

PLESIDIPPUS

Then really, do carry over Do carry over: At sume quidem, though not given by Fleckeisen, has been here adopted as the reading. Censeo seems to mean to reckon up, as well as to think. Salmasius and Gronovius suggest, and with fair reason, that he means jocularly to say, Don’t be always reckoning, but cast up and carry over.. Don’t be always making a reckoning.

TRACHALIO

So I reckon.

PLESIDIPPUS

What if I run?

TRACHALIO

So I reckon.

PLESIDIPPUS

Or rather gently, this way?

TRACHALIO

So I reckon.