“Now when our barque had left Océanus + 

And entered the great deep, we reached the isle + 

Aeaea, where the Morning, child of Dawn, + 

Abides, and holds her dances, and the Sun + 

Goes up from earth. We landed there and drew + 

Our galley up the beach; we disembarked + 

And laid us down to sleep beside the sea, + 

And waited for the holy Morn to rise. + 

“Then when the rosy-fingered Morn appeared, + 

The child of Dawn, I sent my comrades forth + 

To bring from Circè’s halls Elpenor’s corse. + 

And where a headland stretched into the deep + 

We hewed down trees, and held the funeral rites + 

With many tears; and having there consumed + 

The body and the arms with fire, we built + 

A tomb, and reared a column to the dead, + 

And on its summit fixed a tapering oar. + 

“All this was duly done; yet was the news + 

Of our return from Hades not concealed + 

From Circè. She attired herself in haste + 

And came; her maids came with her, bringing bread + 

And store of meats and generous wine; and thus + 

Spake the wise goddess, standing in the midst:⁠— + 

“ ‘Ah, daring ones! who, yet alive, have gone + 

Down to the abode of Pluto; twice to die + 

Is yours, while others die but once. Yet now + 

Take food, drink wine, and hold a feast today, + 

And with the dawn of morning ye shall sail; + 

And I will show the way, and teach you all + 

Its dangers, so that ye may not lament + 

False counsels followed, either on the land + 

Or on the water, to your grievous harm.’ + 

“She spake, and our confiding minds were swayed + 

Easily by her counsels. All that day + 

Till set of sun we sat and banqueted + 

Upon the abundant meats and generous wines; + 

And when the Sun went down, and darkness came, + 

The crew beside the fastenings of our barque + 

Lay down to sleep, while Circè took my hand, + 

Led me apart, and made me sit, and took + 

Her seat before me, and inquired of all + 

That I had seen. I told her faithfully, + 

And then the mighty goddess Circè said:⁠— + 

“ ‘Thus far is well; now needfully attend + 

To what I say, and may some deity + 

Help thee remember it! Thou first wilt come + 

To where the Sirens haunt. They throw a spell + 

O’er all who pass that way. If unawares + 

One finds himself so nigh that he can hear + 

Their voices, round him nevermore shall wife + 

And lisping children gather, welcoming + 

His safe return with joy. The Sirens sit + 

In a green field, and charm with mellow notes + 

The comer, while beside them lie in heaps + 

The bones of men decaying underneath + 

The shrivelled skins. Take heed and pass them by. + 

First fill with wax well kneaded in the palm + 

The ears of thy companions, that no sound + 

May enter. Hear the music, if thou wilt, + 

But let thy people bind thee, hand and foot, + 

To the good ship, upright against the mast, + 

And round it wind the cord, that thou mayst hear + 

The ravishing notes. But shouldst thou then entreat + 

Thy men, commanding them to set thee free, + 

Let them be charged to bind thee yet more fast + 

With added bands. And when they shall have passed + 

The Sirens by, I will not judge for thee + 

Which way to take; consider for thyself; + 

I tell thee of two ways. There is a pile + 

Of beetling rocks, where roars the mighty surge + 

Of dark-eyed Amphitritè; these are called + 

The Wanderers by the blessed gods. No birds + 

Can pass them safe, not even the timid doves, + 

Which bear ambrosia to our father Jove, + 

But ever doth the slippery rock take off + 

Someone, whose loss the God at once supplies, + 

To keep their number full. To these no barque + 

Guided by man has ever come, and left + 

The spot unwrecked; the billows of the deep + 

And storms of fire in air have scattered wide + 

Timbers of ships and bodies of drowned men. + 

One only of the barques that plough the deep + 

Has passed them safely⁠—Argo, known to all + 

By fame, when coming from Aeaeta home⁠— + 

And her the billows would have dashed against + 

The enormous rocks, if Juno, for the sake + 

Of Jason, had not come to guide it through. + 

“ ‘Two are the rocks; one lifts to the broad heaven + 

Its pointed summit, where a dark gray cloud + 

Broods, and withdraws not; never is the sky + 

Clear o’er that peak, not even in summer days + 

Or autumn; nor can man ascend its steeps, + 

Or venture down⁠—so smooth the sides, as if + 

Man’s art had polished them. There in the midst + 

Upon the western side toward Erebus + 

There yawns a shadowy cavern; thither thou, + 

Noble Ulysses, steer thy barque, yet keep + 

So far aloof that, standing on the deck, + 

A youth might send an arrow from a bow + 

Just to the cavern’s mouth. There Scylla dwells, + 

And fills the air with fearful yells; her voice + 

The cry of whelps just littered, but herself + 

A frightful prodigy⁠—a sight which none + 

Would care to look on, though he were a god. + 

Twelve feet are hers, all shapeless; six long necks, + 

A hideous head on each, and triple rows + 

Of teeth, close set and many, threatening death. + 

And half her form is in the cavern’s womb, + 

And forth from that dark gulf her heads are thrust, + 

To look abroad upon the rocks for prey⁠— + 

Dolphin, or dogfish, or the mightier whale, + 

Such as the murmuring Amphitritè breeds + 

In multitudes. No mariner can boast + 

That he has passed by Scylla with a crew + 

Unharmed; she snatches from the deck, and bears + 

Away in each grim mouth, a living man. + 

“ ‘Another rock, Ulysses, thou wilt see, + 

Of lower height, so near her that a spear, + 

Cast by the hand, might reach it. On it grows + 

A huge wild fig-tree with luxuriant leaves. + 

Below, Charybdis, of immortal birth, + 

Draws the dark water down; for thrice a day + 

She gives it forth, and thrice with fearful whirl + 

She draws it in. O, be it not thy lot + 

To come while the dark water rushes down! + 

Even Neptune could not then deliver thee. + 

Then turn thy course with speed toward Scylla’s rock, + 

And pass that way; ’twere better far that six + 

Should perish from the ship than all be lost’ + 

“She spake, and I replied: ‘O goddess, deign + 

To tell me truly, cannot I at once + 

Escape Charybdis and defend my friends + 

Against the rage of Scylla when she strikes?’ + 

“I spake; the mighty goddess answered me:⁠— + 

‘Rash man! dost thou still think of warlike deeds, + 

And feats of strength? And wilt thou not give way + 

Even to the deathless gods? That pest is not + 

Of mortal mould; she cannot die, she is + 

A thing to tremble and to shudder at, + 

And fierce, and never to be overcome. + 

There is no room for courage; flight is best. + 

And if thou shouldst delay beside the rock + 

To take up arms, I fear lest once again + 

She fall on thee with all her heads, and seize + 

As many men. Pass by the monster’s haunt + 

With all the speed that thou canst make, and call + 

Upon Crataeis, who brought Scylla forth + 

To be the plague of men, and who will calm + 

Her rage, that she assault thee not again. + 

“ ‘Then in thy voyage shalt thou reach the isle + 

Trinacria, where, in pastures of the Sun, + 

His many beeves and fading sheep are fed⁠— + 

Seven herds of oxen, and as many flocks + 

Of sheep, and fifty in each flock and herd. + 

They never multiply; they never die. + 

Two shepherdesses tend them, goddesses, + 

Nymphs with redundant locks⁠—Lampelia one, + 

The other Phaëthusa. These the nymph + 

Naeëra to the overgoing Sun + 

Brought forth, and when their queenly mother’s care + 

Had reared them, she appointed them to dwell + 

In far Trinacria, there to keep the flocks + 

And oxen of their father. If thy thoughts + 

Be fixed on thy return, so that thou leave + 

These flocks and herds unharmed, ye all will come + 

To Ithaca, though after many toils. + 

But if thou rashly harm them, I foretell + 

Destruction to thy ship and all its crew; + 

And if thyself escape, thou wilt return + 

Late and in sorrow, all thy comrades lost.’ + 

“She spake; the Morning on her golden throne + 

Looked forth; the glorious goddess went her way + 

Into the isle, I to my ship, and bade + 

The men embark and cast the hawsers loose. + 

And straight they went on board, and duly manned + 

The benches, smiting as they sat with oars + 

The hoary waters. Circè, amber-haired, + 

The mighty goddess of the musical voice, + 

Sent a fair wind behind our dark-prowed ship + 

That gayly bore us company, and filled + 

The sails. When we had fairly ordered all + 

On board our galley, we sat down, and left + 

The favoring wind and helm to bear us on, + 

And thus in sadness I bespake the crew:⁠— + 

“ ‘My friends! it were not well that one or two + 

Alone should know the oracles I heard + 

From Circè, great among the goddesses; + 

And now will I disclose them, that ye all, + 

Whether we are to die or to escape + 

The doom of death, may be forewarned. And first + 

Against the wicked Sirens and their song + 

And flowery bank she warns us. I alone + 

May hear their voice, but ye must bind me first + 

With bands too strong to break, that I may stand + 

Upright against the mast; and let the cords + 

Be fastened round it. If I then entreat + 

And bid you loose me, make the bands more strong.’ + 

“Thus to my crew I spake, and told them all + 

That they should know, while our good ship drew near + 

The island of the Sirens, prosperous gales + 

Wafting it gently onward. Then the breeze + 

Sank to a breathless calm; some deity + 

Had hushed the winds to slumber. Straightway rose + 

The men and furled the sails and laid them down + 

Within the ship, and sat and made the sea + 

White with the beating of their polished blades, + 

Made of the fir-tree. Then I took a mass + 

Of wax and cut it into many parts, + 

And kneaded each with a strong hand. It grew + 

Warm with the pressure, and the beams of him + 

Who journeys round the earth, the monarch Sun. + 

With this I filled the ears of all my men + 

From first to last. They bound me, in their turn, + 

Upright against the mast-tree, hand and foot, + 

And tied the cords around it. Then again + 

They sat and threshed with oars the hoary deep. + 

And when, in running rapidly, we came + 

So near the Sirens as to hear a voice + 

From where they sat, our galley flew not by + 

Unseen by them, and sweetly thus they sang:⁠— + 

“ ‘O world-renowned Ulysses! thou who art + 

The glory of the Achaians, turn thy barque + 

Landward, that thou mayst listen to our lay + 

No man has passed us in his galley yet, + 

Ere he has heard our warbled melodies. + 

He goes delighted hence a wiser man; + 

For all that in the spacious realm of Troy + 

The Greeks and Trojans by the will of Heaven + 

Endured we know, and all that comes to pass + 

In all the nations of the fruitful earth.’ ” + 

’Twas thus they sang, and sweet the strain. I longed + 

To listen, and with nods I gave the sign + 

To set me free; they only plied their oars + 

The faster. Then upsprang Eurylochus + 

And Perimedes, and with added cords + 

Bound me, and drew the others still more tight. + 

And when we now had passed the spot, and heard + 

No more the melody the Sirens sang, + 

My comrades hastened from their ears to take + 

The wax, and loosed the cords and set me free. + 

“As soon as we had left the isle, I saw + 

Mist and a mountain billow, and I heard + 

The thunder of the waters. From the hands + 

Of my affrighted comrades flew the oars, + 

The deep was all in uproar; but the ship + 

Stopped there, for all the rowers ceased their task. + 

I went through all the ship exhorting them + 

With cheerful words, man after man, and said:⁠— + 

“ ‘Reflect, my friends, that we are not untried + 

In evil fortunes, nor in sadder plight + 

Are we than when within his spacious cave + 

The brutal Cyclops held us prisoners; + 

Yet through my valor we escaped, and through + 

My counsels and devices, and I think + 

That ye will live to bear this day’s events + 

In memory like those. Now let us act. + 

Do all as I advise; go to your seats + 

Upon the benches, smiting with your oars + 

These mighty waves, and haply Jove will grant + 

That we escape the death which threatens us. + 

Thee, helmsman, I adjure⁠—and heed my words, + 

Since to thy hands alone is given in charge + 

Our gallant vessel’s rudder⁠—steer thou hence + 

From mist and tumbling waves, and well observe + 

The rock, lest where it juts into the sea + 

Thou heed it not, and bring us all to wreck.’ + 

“I spake, and quickly all obeyed my words. + 

Yet said I naught of Scylla⁠—whom we now + 

Could not avoid⁠—lest all the crew in fear + 

Should cease to row, and crowd into the hold. + 

And then did I forget the stern command + 

Which Circè gave me, not to arm myself + 

For combat. In my shining arms I cased + 

My limbs, and took in hand two ponderous spears, + 

And went on deck, and stood upon the prow⁠— + 

For there it seemed to me that Scylla first + 

Would show herself⁠—that monster of the rocks⁠— + 

To seize my comrades. Yet I saw her not, + 

Though weary grew my eyes with looking long + 

And eagerly upon those dusky cliffs. + 

“Sadly we sailed into the strait, where stood + 

On one hand Scylla, and the dreaded rock + 

Charybdis on the other, drawing down + 

Into her horrid gulf the briny flood; + 

And as she threw it forth again, it tossed + 

And murmured as upon a glowing fire + 

The water in a cauldron, while the spray, + 

Thrown upward, fell on both the summit-rocks; + 

And when once more she swallowed the salt sea, + 

It whirled within the abyss, while far below + 

The bottom of blue sand was seen. My men + 

Grew pale with fear; we looked into the gulf + 

And thought our end was nigh. Then Scylla snatched + 

Six of my comrades from our hollow barque, + 

The best in valor and in strength of arm. + 

I looked to my good ship; I looked to them, + 

And saw their hands and feet still swung in air + 

Above me, while for the last time on earth + 

They called my name in agony of heart. + 

As when an angler on a jutting rock + 

Sits with his taper rod, and casts his bait + 

To snare the smaller fish, he sends the horn + 

Of a wild bull that guards his line afar + 

Into the water, and jerks out a fish, + 

And throws it gasping shoreward; so were they + 

Uplifted gasping to the rocks, and there + 

Scylla devoured them at her cavern’s mouth, + 

Stretching their hands to me with piercing cries + 

Of anguish. ’Twas in truth the saddest sight, + 

Whatever I have suffered and where’er + 

Have roamed the waters, that mine eyes have seen. + 

“Escaping thus the rocks, the dreaded haunt + 

Of Scylla and Charybdis, we approached + 

The pleasant island of the Sun, where grazed + 

The oxen with broad foreheads, beautiful, + 

And flocks of sheep, the fatlings of the god + 

Who makes the round of heaven. While yet at sea + 

I heard from my black ship the low of herds + 

In stables, and the bleatings of the flocks, + 

And straightway came into my thought the words + 

Of the blind seer Tiresias, him of Thebes, + 

And of Aeaean Circè, who had oft + 

Warned me to shun the island of the god + 

Whose light is sweet to all. And then I said + 

To my companions with a sorrowing heart:⁠— + 

“ ‘My comrades, sufferers as ye are, give ear. + 

I shall disclose the oracles which late + 

Tiresias and Aeaean Circè gave. + 

The goddess earnestly admonished me + 

Not to approach the island of the Sun, + 

Whose light is sweet to all, for there she said + 

Some great misfortune lay in wait for us. + 

Now let us speed the ship and pass the isle.’ + 

“I spake; their hearts were broken as they heard, + 

And bitterly Eurylochus replied:⁠— + 

“ ‘Austere art thou, Ulysses; thou art strong + 

Exceedingly; no labor tires thy limbs; + 

They must be made of iron, since thy will + 

Denies thy comrades, overcome with toil + 

And sleeplessness, to tread the land again, + 

And in that isle amid the waters make + 

A generous banquet. Thou wouldst have us sail + 

Into the swiftly coming night, and stray + 

Far from the island, through the misty sea. + 

By night spring up the mighty winds that make + 

A wreck of ships, and how can one escape + 

Destruction, should a sudden hurricane + 

Rise from the south or the hard-blowing west, + 

Such as, in spite of all the sovereign gods, + 

Will cause a ship to founder in the deep? + 

Let us obey the dark-browed Night, and take + 

Our evening meal, remaining close beside + 

Our gallant barque, and go on board again + 

When morning breaks, and enter the wide sea.’ + 

“So spake Eurylochus; the rest approved. + 

And then I knew that some divinity + 

Was meditating evil to our band, + 

And I bespake him thus in winged words:⁠— + 

“ ‘Eurylochus, ye force me to your will, + 

Since I am only one. Now all of you + 

Bind yourselves to me firmly, by an oath, + 

That if ye haply here shall meet a herd + 

Of beeves or flock of sheep, ye will not dare + 

To slay a single ox or sheep, but feed + 

Contented on the stores that Circè gave.’ + 

“I spake, and readily my comrades swore + 

As I required; and when that solemn oath + 

Was taken, to the land we brought and moored + 

Our galley in a winding creek, beside + 

A fountain of sweet water. From the deck + 

Stepped my companions and made ready there + 

Their evening cheer. They ate and drank till thirst + 

And hunger were appeased, and then they thought + 

Of those whom Scylla from our galley’s deck + 

Snatched and devoured; they thought and wept till sleep + 

Stole softly over them amid their tears. + 

Now came the third part of the night; the stars + 

Were sinking when the Cloud-compeller Jove + 

Sent forth a violent wind with eddying gusts, + 

And covered both the earth and sky with clouds, + 

And darkness fell from heaven. When Morning came, + 

The rosy-fingered daughter of the Dawn, + 

We drew the ship into a spacious grot. + 

There were the seats of nymphs, and there we saw + 

The smooth fair places where they danced. I called + 

A council of my men, and said to them:⁠— + 

“ ‘My friends, in our good ship are food and drink; + 

Abstain we from these beeves, lest we be made + 

To suffer; for these herds and these fair flocks + 

Are sacred to a dreaded god, the Sun⁠— + 

The all-beholding and all-hearing Sun.’ + 

“I spake, and all were swayed by what I said + 

Full easily. A month entire the gales + 

Blew from the south, and after that no wind + 

Save east and south. While yet we had our bread + 

And ruddy wine, my comrades spared the beeves, + 

Moved by the love of life. But when the stores + 

On board our galley were consumed, they roamed + 

The island in their need, and sought for prey, + 

And snared with barbed hooks the fish and birds⁠— + 

Whatever came to hand⁠—till they were gaunt + 

With famine. Meantime I withdrew alone + 

Into the isle, to supplicate the gods, + 

If haply one of them might yet reveal + 

The way of my return. As thus I strayed + 

Into the land, apart from all the rest, + 

I found a sheltered nook where no wind came, + 

And prayed with washen hands to all the gods + 

Who dwell in heaven. At length they bathed my lids + 

In a soft sleep. Meantime, Eurylochus + 

With fatal counsels thus harangued my men:⁠— + 

“ ‘Hear, my companions, sufferers as ye are, + 

The words that I shall speak. All modes of death + 

Are hateful to the wretched race of men; + 

But this of hunger, thus to meet our fate, + 

Is the most fearful. Let us drive apart + 

The best of all the oxen of the Sun, + 

And sacrifice them to the immortal ones + 

Who dwell in the broad heaven. And if we come + 

To Ithaca, our country, we will there + 

Build to the Sun, whose path is o’er our heads, + 

A sumptuous temple, and endow its shrine + 

With many gifts and rare. But if it be + 

His will, approved by all the other gods, + 

To sink our barque in anger, for the sake + 

Of these his high-horned oxen, I should choose + 

Sooner to gasp my life away amid + 

The billows of the deep, than pine to death + 

By famine in this melancholy isle.’ + 

“So spake Eurylochus; the crew approved. + 

Then from the neighboring herd they drove the best + 

Of all the beeves; for near the dark-prowed ship + 

The fair broad-fronted herd with crooked horns + 

Were feeding. Round the victims stood my crew, + 

And, offering their petitions to the gods, + 

Held tender oak-leaves in their hands, just plucked + 

From a tall tree, for in our good ship’s hold + 

Was no white barley now. When they had prayed, + 

And slain and dressed the beeves, they hewed away + 

The thighs and covered them with double folds + 

Of caul, and laid raw slices over these. + 

Wine had they not to pour in sacrifice + 

Upon the burning flesh; they poured instead + 

Water, and roasted all the entrails thus. + 

Now when the thighs were thoroughly consumed, + 

And entrails tasted, all the rest was carved + 

Into small portions, and transfixed with spits. + 

“Just then the gentle slumber left my lids. + 

I hurried to the shore and my good ship, + 

And, drawing near, perceived the savory steam + 

From the burnt-offering. Sorrowfully then + 

I called upon the ever-living gods:⁠— + 

“ ‘O Father Jove, and all ye blessed gods, + 

Who live forever, ’twas a cruel sleep + 

In which ye lulled me to my grievous harm; + 

My comrades here have done a fearful wrong.’ + 

“Lampetia, of the trailing robes, in haste + 

Flew to the Sun, who journeys round the earth, + 

To tell him that my crew had slain his beeves, + 

And thus in anger he bespake the gods:⁠— + 

“ ‘O Father Jove, and all ye blessed gods + 

Who never die, avenge the wrong I bear + 

Upon the comrades of Laertes’ son, + 

Ulysses, who have foully slain my beeves, + 

In which I took delight whene’er I rose + 

Into the starry heaven, and when again + 

I sank from heaven to earth. If for the wrong + 

They make not large amends, I shall go down + 

To Hades, there to shine among the dead.’ + 

“The cloud-compelling Jupiter replied:⁠— + 

‘Still shine, O Sun! among the deathless gods + 

And mortal men, upon the nourishing earth. + 

Soon will I cleave, with a white thunderbolt, + 

Their galley in the midst of the black sea.’ + 

“This from Calypso of the radiant hair + 

I heard thereafter; she herself, she said, + 

Had heard it from the herald Mercury. + 

“When to the ship I came, beside the sea, + 

I sternly chid them all, man after man, + 

Yet could we think of no redress; the beeves + 

Were dead; and now with prodigies the gods + 

Amazed my comrades⁠—the skins moved and crawled, + 

The flesh both raw and roasted on the spits + 

Lowed with the voice of oxen. Six whole days + 

My comrades feasted, taking from the herd + 

The Sun’s best oxen. When Saturnian Jove + 

Brought the seventh day, the tempest ceased; the wind + 

Fell, and we straightway went on board. We set + 

The mast upright, and, spreading the white sails, + 

We ventured on the great wide sea again. + 

“When we had left the isle, and now appeared + 

No other land, but only sea and sky, + 

The son of Saturn caused a lurid cloud + 

To gather o’er the galley, and to cast + 

Its darkness on the deep. Not long our ship + 

Ran onward, ere the furious west-wind rose + 

And blew a hurricane. A strong blast snapped + 

Both ropes that held the mast; the mast fell back; + 

The tackle dropped entangled to the hold; + 

The mast, in falling on the galley’s stern, + 

Dashed on the pilot’s head and crushed the bones, + 

And from the deck he plunged like one who dives + 

Into the deep; his gallant spirit left + 

The limbs at once. Jove thundered from on high, + 

And sent a thunderbolt into the ship, + 

That, quaking with the fearful blow, and filled + 

With stifling sulphur, shook my comrades off + 

Into the deep. They floated round the ship + 

Like seamews; Jupiter had cut them off + 

From their return. I moved from place to place, + 

Still in the ship, until the tempest’s force + 

Parted the sides and keel. Before the waves + 

The naked keel was swept. The mast had snapped + 

Just at the base, but round it was a thong + 

Made of a bullock’s hide; with this I bound + 

The mast and keel together, took my seat + 

Upon them, and the wild winds bore me on. + 

“The west-wind ceased to rage; but in its stead + 

The south-wind blew, and brought me bitter grief. + 

I feared lest I must measure back my way + 

To grim Charybdis. All night long I rode + 

The waves, and with the rising sun drew near + 

The rock of Scylla and the terrible + 

Charybdis as her gulf was drawing down + 

The waves of the salt sea. There as I came + 

I raised myself on high till I could grasp + 

The lofty fig-tree, and I clung to it + 

As clings a bat⁠—for I could neither find + 

A place to plant my feet, nor could I climb, + 

So distant were the roots, so far apart + 

The long huge branches overshadowing + 

Charybdis. Yet I firmly kept my hold + 

Till she should throw the keel and mast again + 

Up from the gulf. They, as I waited long, + 

Came up again, though late⁠—as late as one + 

Who long has sat adjudging strifes between + 

Young suitors pleading in the marketplace + 

Rises and goes to take his evening meal; + 

So late the timbers of my barque returned, + 

Thrown from Charybdis. Then I dropped amid + 

The dashing waves, and came with hands and feet + 

On those long timbers in the midst, that they + 

Might bear my weight. I sat on them and rowed + 

With both my hands. The father of the gods + 

And mortals suffered not that I should look + 

On Scylla’s rock again, else had I not + 

Escaped a cruel death. For nine long days + 

I floated on the waters; on the tenth + 

The gods at nightfall bore me to an isle⁠— + 

Ogygia, where Calypso, amber-haired, + 

A mighty goddess, skilled in song, abides, + 

Who kindly welcomed me, and cherished me. + 

Why should I speak of this? Here in these halls + 

I gave the history yesterday to thee + 

And to thy gracious consort, and I hate + 

To tell again a tale once fully told.” + 