So spake they each unto other, questioning, answering thus. + 

But now Cometh Pelias speeding with haste impetuous + 

His mules and his polished chariot⁠—suddenly stayed he and stared + 

In amaze at the one foot sandalled of the man with the left foot bared, + 

The unmistakable token! Howbeit he hid in his heart + 

His dread, and he spake: “Thou stranger, say of what land thou art, + 

And what is thy fatherland tell me! What womb gave thee birth? + 

What giantess was thy mother of the ancient children of Earth? + 

Speak out! Of thy lineage tell us; and see that thou do not defile + 

Thy lips with words of feigning, with falsehoods loathsome-vile!” + 