1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: The nineteenth Book of the Odyssees of Homer. This is 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,439 a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:13,599 For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. 4 00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:18,239 Recording by Phil Schamp. The Nineteenth Book of the Odyssees 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:25,079 of Homer, translated by George Chapman. The argument Ulysses and 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,120 his son a Shu offending of the wooer's view with 7 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:32,399 any armor his birth seat, Ulysses tells his queen is 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,399 crete Eurycleia. The truth yet found, discovered a scar, healed 9 00:00:37,439 --> 00:00:41,479 wound which in Parnassus's tops a bore struck by him 10 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:47,759 in his chase, did gore another argument taw the king 11 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,600 still hid by what he said, by what he did 12 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:55,439 informs his maid. Yet did divine Ulysses keep his rough 13 00:00:55,679 --> 00:00:58,439 and with Minerva plotted still the proof of all the 14 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:01,320 war's deaths. When thus tis his son he taught with 15 00:01:01,439 --> 00:01:05,120 these four councils, we must run a close course with 16 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:08,400 these arms, and lay them by, and to the woers, 17 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,239 make so fair a sky as it would never thunder. 18 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,840 Let me then, that you may well retain. Repeat again 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,159 what in Eumius's cottage. I advised, if when they see 20 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,640 no leisure exercised in fetching down your arms, and asked 21 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:25,920 what use your mind will give them, say tis their 22 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,000 abuse with smoke and rust that makes you take them down. 23 00:01:29,359 --> 00:01:32,000 This not being like the armory well known to the 24 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,640 leavings of Laertes's son consorting the design for ilion, your 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,439 eyes may see how much they are infected, as all 26 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,319 fire's vapors ever since reflected on those soul arms. Besides, 27 00:01:44,599 --> 00:01:48,359 a graver thought, jove graves within you, lest their spirits 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,439 wrought above their pitch with wine, they might contend at 29 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:56,079 some high banquet, and to wounds transcend their feast, inverting 30 00:01:56,239 --> 00:02:00,079 which perhaps may be their nuptial feast. With wise Penelope, 31 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:03,280 the ready weapon when the blood is up doubles the 32 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:07,439 uproar heightened by the cup. Wrath's means for act, curb 33 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,039 all the ways ye can as lodestones draw the steel, 34 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:15,520 so steel draws. Man retain these words, nor what does 35 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,840 good think? Thus received at second hand superfluous the son, obeying, 36 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,080 did euryclea call and bade her shut in the utter 37 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,120 porches all the other women, till himself brought down his 38 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,199 father's arms, which all were overgrown by his neglect. With rust. 39 00:02:31,759 --> 00:02:35,039 His father gone, and he too childish to spend thoughts 40 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:38,560 upon those manly implements. But he would now reform those 41 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:42,159 young neglects, and the arms bestow past reach of smoke. 42 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,960 The loving nurse replied, I wish, o, son, your powers 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,560 would once provide for wisdom's habit. See your household were 44 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,319 in thrifty manage, and tend all things there. But if 45 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,360 these arms must down, and every maid be shut in 46 00:02:57,479 --> 00:03:00,199 utter rooms, who else should aid your work with life? Light? 47 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,879 He answered this, my guest, there shall no one in 48 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,199 my house taste my feast or join in my knave 49 00:03:08,319 --> 00:03:12,479 that shall idly live, however far hence he his home derive, 50 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:18,000 he said, and his words stood. The doors she shut 51 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:21,000 of that so well filled house, and the other put 52 00:03:21,039 --> 00:03:26,039 their thoughts in act. Best shields helms, sharpened, lances brought down, 53 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:30,400 and pallace before both advances a golden cresset that did 54 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:32,840 cast a light, as if the day sat in the 55 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,120 throne of night. When half amazed, the prince said, O, 56 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:41,280 my father, mine eyes, my soul's powers all in wonder gather, 57 00:03:41,639 --> 00:03:44,800 For though the walls and goodly wind beams. Here all 58 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:48,199 all these pillars, that their heads so rare, and all 59 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,800 of fur they seem, yet all of fire. Some god 60 00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:55,960 is surely with us. His wise sire bade peace and 61 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,719 keep the counsels of the gods, Nor asked the word. 62 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:03,439 Powers that use abodes above the stars have power from 63 00:04:03,479 --> 00:04:06,599 thence to shine through night in all shades, to earth's 64 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:10,639 inmost mine. Go thou for sleep, and leave me here 65 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:13,520 to wake the women and the queen, whose heart doth 66 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,319 ache to make inquiry for myself of me, He went 67 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,879 to sleep, where lights did endlessly burn in his night rooms, 68 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,319 where he feasted rest till day's fair weed did all 69 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:28,839 the world invest Thus was the Monulysses left alone with Pallace, 70 00:04:29,079 --> 00:04:33,120 plotting foul confusion to all the wars. Forth, then came 71 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,560 the Queen Phoebe, with golden Catheria scene her port presented, 72 00:04:37,879 --> 00:04:41,360 whom they set a chair aside the fire, the fashioned circular, 73 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,120 the substance silver and rich elephant, whose fabric did the 74 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,079 cunning finger vaunt of Great Echmolius, who besides had done 75 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:52,439 a footstool for her that did suit her throne, on 76 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,480 which they cast an apple skin to be the cushion 77 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,959 for her other royalty. And there she sat about whom 78 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,040 came her maids, who brought upon a table store of 79 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:05,480 breads and bulls, that, with the wooer's wine, were crowned 80 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,680 the embers. Then they cast upon the ground from out 81 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,079 the lamps and other fuel added that, still with cheerful 82 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,040 flame the sad house gladded Melantha, seeing still ulysses there. 83 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:22,120 Thus she held out her spleen, still stranger here thus 84 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:25,639 late in night, to see what ladies do of aunt 85 00:05:25,759 --> 00:05:29,759 you wretch. Hence, go without doors, go and quickly too, 86 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,600 lest ye be singed away with burning fire brands. He thus, 87 00:05:34,639 --> 00:05:39,920 seeing their frey, continued by her with such bleen, replied, minion, 88 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,720 what makes your angry blood? Thus chied my presence still 89 00:05:44,439 --> 00:05:46,680 is it? Because you see I shine not in your 90 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,800 wanton bravery, but wear these rags. It fits the needy 91 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,519 fate that makes me beg Thus of the common state, 92 00:05:54,199 --> 00:05:57,920 such poor souls and such beggars, yet are men, And 93 00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:01,759 even my mean means means had to maintain a wealthy 94 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,079 house and kept a manly press, was counted blessed. And 95 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:09,240 the poor access of any beggar did not scorn, but 96 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:13,040 feed with often hand, and any man of need relieved 97 00:06:13,079 --> 00:06:17,319 as fitted kept My servants too, not few, but did 98 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:20,639 with those additions go that call choice men the honest, 99 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:24,319 who are styled the rich the great. But what such 100 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:27,560 great ones build jove off pulls down, as thus he 101 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,360 ruined me. His will was such which is his equity. 102 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:35,720 And therefore, woman, bear your fitting hand on your behavior. 103 00:06:36,079 --> 00:06:39,519 Lest your spirit, thus manned and cherished with your beauties, 104 00:06:39,959 --> 00:06:43,680 when they wane, comes down your pride now being then 105 00:06:43,759 --> 00:06:47,639 your bane, and in the mean space, shun the present danger, 106 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:52,240 lest your bold fashion breed your sovereign's anger, or lest 107 00:06:52,319 --> 00:06:56,360 ulysses come of whom even yet hope find some life 108 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:59,959 in fate, or be his seat amongst the merely ruined. 109 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:04,199 Yet his son, whose life's heat Phoebus saves, is such 110 00:07:04,199 --> 00:07:07,279 a one as can discover, who doth well deserve of 111 00:07:07,399 --> 00:07:11,360 any woman. Here his years now serve. The Queen gave 112 00:07:11,439 --> 00:07:15,240 ear and thus suppressed the flame. Thou quite without a 113 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:19,959 brow past female shame. I hear thy monstrous boldness, which 114 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,680 thy head shall pay me pains, for thou hast heard 115 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,399 it said, and from myself too, and every part thy 116 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,079 knowledge serves thee that to ease my heart so punish'd 117 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:34,759 in thy witness. My desire dwelt on this stranger, that 118 00:07:34,839 --> 00:07:38,480 I might inquire my lost friend's being. But tis ever tried, 119 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:42,759 both man and God are still forgot with pride your enemy. 120 00:07:43,079 --> 00:07:45,480 Bring here this guest a seat, and cushion on it, 121 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,519 that we too may treat of the affair in question. 122 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,240 Set it near, that I may softly speak. Yet he 123 00:07:52,439 --> 00:07:57,079 well here she did this little freely, and he sat 124 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,079 close by the queen, who asked him whence and what 125 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,720 he was himself? And what the inhabited place where lived 126 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,439 his parents? Whence he fetched his race? O woman? He replied, 127 00:08:08,959 --> 00:08:12,519 with whom no man that moves in Earth's unbounded circle 128 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,720 can maintain contention for true honor, given whose fame hath 129 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,639 reached the fairly flowing heaven, who like a never ill 130 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,639 deserving king that is well spoke of first for worshiping 131 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,480 and striving to resemble God in empire, whose equal hand 132 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,039 impartially doth temper greatness and goodness, to whom therefore bears 133 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,039 the black Earth's store of all grain trees confers cracking 134 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:41,480 with burthen long lived herds creates all which the sea 135 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,279 with her sorts emulates, and all this feeds beneath his 136 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:50,440 powerful hand men, valiant many, making strong his land with 137 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:54,799 happy lives. Led nothing else the cause of all these blessings, 138 00:08:54,879 --> 00:08:58,240 but well ordered laws, like such a king. Are you 139 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:02,080 in love, in fame, and all the bliss that deifies 140 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,080 a dame? And therefore do not mix this with a 141 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,720 moan so wretched as is now in question. Ask not 142 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,840 my race nor country, lest you fill my heart yet 143 00:09:11,919 --> 00:09:15,279 fuller with repeated ill, for I must follow it with 144 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:18,840 many tears. Though tis not seemly to set wounding ears 145 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:23,720 in public roofs. With our particular life. Time's worst expense 146 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:27,600 is still repeated grief. I should be irksome to your 147 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:30,919 ladies here, and you yourself would say you urged your 148 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,559 ear to what offends it My still broken eye, supposing 149 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,159 wounded with your too much wine, stranger said she, you 150 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:41,919 fear your own excess with giving me too great a 151 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,559 nobleness the gods, my person, beauty, virtue too long since subverted. 152 00:09:47,759 --> 00:09:51,080 When the Ilian woe the Greek design attempted, in which 153 00:09:51,159 --> 00:09:54,519 went my praise and honor in his government? Had I 154 00:09:54,639 --> 00:09:59,200 deserved your utmost grace, But now sinister deity makes dishonor 155 00:09:59,279 --> 00:10:03,679 woo in show of grace my ruin. All the peers Sylvans, 156 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:08,720 Acinthus and Dulichius, Spheares, Samos and Ithaca, strange strifes have 157 00:10:08,799 --> 00:10:11,960 shown to win me, spending on me all mine own 158 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,440 will wed me in my spite. And these are those 159 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,120 that take from me all virtue to dispose, or guest 160 00:10:19,279 --> 00:10:23,480 or suppliant, or take any course amongst my heralds, that 161 00:10:23,639 --> 00:10:27,759 should all disperse to order anything. Though I need none 162 00:10:27,799 --> 00:10:30,799 to give me grief at home abroad heirrs one that 163 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:35,799 my veins shrink, for whom these holding gone their nuptials, 164 00:10:35,799 --> 00:10:40,200 hasten and find me as slow. Good spirits prompt me 165 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,159 to make a show of undertaking a most curious task 166 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,679 that an unmeasured space of time would ask, which they, 167 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:51,080 enduring long, would often say, when ends thy work. I 168 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,720 soon had my delay and prayed their stay, For though 169 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,679 my lord were dead, his father's life yet mattered. Ministre, 170 00:10:58,879 --> 00:11:02,600 that must employ me which to tell them true was 171 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,879 that great work I named for now near drew Laerti's death, 172 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,639 and on my hand did lie his funeral robe, whose 173 00:11:10,799 --> 00:11:13,879 end being now so nigh, I must not leave and 174 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,879 lose so much begun the rather lest the Greek dames 175 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,399 might be won to tax mine honor. If a man 176 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,399 so great should greet his grave without his winding sheet, 177 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:27,600 pride made them credulous, and I went on. When whatsoever 178 00:11:27,759 --> 00:11:30,320 all the day had done, I made the knight helped 179 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,039 to undo again, though oil and watch it cost and 180 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:39,080 equal pain. Three years, my wits secured me undiscern'd. Yet 181 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,759 when the fourth came by my maid's discern'd, false careless wenches, 182 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,120 how they were deluded. When by my light discern'd they 183 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:51,879 all intruded, using threatening words, and made me give it end. 184 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:55,279 And then could I to no more length extend my 185 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,000 linger'd nuptials. Not a council more was to be stood upon. 186 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,039 My parants bore continual hand on me to make me wed. 187 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,879 My son grew angry that so ruined his goods were 188 00:12:06,919 --> 00:12:10,000 by them. He is now a man wise in a 189 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,399 great degree, and one that can himself give order to 190 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,200 his household fair and Jove give equal glory to his care. 191 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:20,840 But thus you must not pass me. I must know 192 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:24,120 it may be for more end. From whence doth grow 193 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,120 your race and you for I suppose you none sprung 194 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:31,960 of old oak or ustled out of stone, He answered, Oh, Ulysses, 195 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,679 reverend wife. Yet hold you purpose to inquire my life. 196 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,039 I'll tell you, though it much afflict me, more than 197 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,879 all the sorrows I have felt before, as worthily it may, 198 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:45,919 since so long time as I have wandered from my 199 00:12:46,039 --> 00:12:50,120 native clime, through human cities, and in sufferance still to 200 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,120 rip all wounds up. Though of all their ill I touch, 201 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,600 but part must actuate all their pain. But ask you still, 202 00:12:57,879 --> 00:13:01,840 I'll tell those still sustain. In the middle of the 203 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,399 Sable Sea there lies an isle called Crete, a ravisher 204 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,279 of eyes, fruitful and manned with many, an infinite store 205 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,519 where ninety cities crown the famous shore, mixed with all 206 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:18,759 languaged men. There. Greeks survive there, the great mind Etocretans 207 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:23,679 live there, the Dornsian never out of war, the Sidons there, 208 00:13:23,919 --> 00:13:28,120 and there the singular Palestian people. There does Nosus stand 209 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:32,759 that mighty city where had most command great Jove's disciple Minos, 210 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,200 who nine years conferred with Jove both great familiars in 211 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:42,000 mutual councils. And this Minos's son, the Mighty Minded King 212 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:46,600 Doukelion was sire to me and royal Idomen, who with 213 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,200 atrides went to Ilian. Then my elder brother and the 214 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,879 better man my name Ethan. At that time began my 215 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,480 knowledge of Ulysses, whom my home received with guest rights. 216 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,320 He was thither come by force of weather from the 217 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,600 Malian coast, but knew got off where he the navy lost, 218 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,000 then under sail for Troy and wind bound, lay long 219 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,799 in the Nisses, hardly got away from horrid storms that 220 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,919 made him anchor there in havens that sacred to Lucina 221 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:20,679 were dreadful and dangerous, in whose bosom crept Lucina's cavern. 222 00:14:21,279 --> 00:14:25,120 But in my roof slept Ulysses shored in Crete, who 223 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:29,000 first inquire for Royal Idomen, and much desired to taste 224 00:14:29,039 --> 00:14:32,279 his guest rites, since to him had been a welcome guest. 225 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,480 My brother I Doman, the tenth or eleventh light on 226 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:39,360 Ulysses shined in stay at Crete, attending then the wind 227 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,360 for threatened Ilion, all which time my house, with love 228 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:47,440 and entertainments curious embraced his person. Though a number more 229 00:14:47,519 --> 00:14:51,559 my hospitable roofs received before his men I likewise called 230 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,919 and from the store allowed them meal and heat, exciting 231 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,240 wine and oxen for their slaughter to confine in my 232 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:02,120 free hand. The utmost of their twelve days, the Greek 233 00:15:02,159 --> 00:15:05,480 stayed ere. They got them freed a gale so bitter 234 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:08,399 blue out of the north that none could stand on earth, 235 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:11,960 being tumbled forth by some stern god. But on the 236 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,840 thirteenth day the tempest ceased, and then went Greeks their way. 237 00:15:16,759 --> 00:15:20,639 Thus many tales, Ulysses told his wife, at most but painting, 238 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,120 yet most like the life of which her heart such 239 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,159 sense took through her ears. It made her weep, as 240 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,320 she would turn to tears, and as from off the 241 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,320 mountains melts the snow which Zephyr's breath concealed, but was 242 00:15:34,399 --> 00:15:38,240 made flow by hollow Urus, which so fast pours down 243 00:15:38,559 --> 00:15:42,320 that with their torrent floods have overflown, so down her 244 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,759 fair cheeks, her kind tears did glide her. Miss Lord 245 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:50,279 mourning set so near her side, Ulysses much was moved 246 00:15:50,279 --> 00:15:53,000 to see her morn, whose eyes yet stood as dry 247 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:56,559 as iron or horn in his untroubled lids, which in 248 00:15:56,639 --> 00:16:00,759 his craft of bridling passion he from issue sacked aft. 249 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,879 When she had given her moan so many tears that 250 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,639 now twas satiate her, yet loving fears asked, thus much further, 251 00:16:09,519 --> 00:16:13,120 You have thus far tried my love's credulity. But if 252 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,399 gratified with so long stay he was with you, you 253 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:19,639 can describe what weed he wore, what kind of man 254 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:23,360 both he himself was, and what followers observed him there 255 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,279 Alas said he, the years have grown so many since this, 256 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,279 making now their twentieth revolution, that my show of these 257 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,279 slight notes will set my memory sore. But to my 258 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,720 now remembrance this he wore a double purple robe, drawn 259 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:43,679 close before, with golden buttons plaited thick, and bore a 260 00:16:43,759 --> 00:16:47,799 facing where a hundred colors shined about the skirts. A 261 00:16:47,879 --> 00:16:51,360 hound of freckled hind in full course hunted on the 262 00:16:51,399 --> 00:16:54,960 four skirts, Yet he pinched and pulled her down, when 263 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,200 with her feet and all her force she struggled hard 264 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,440 for flight, which had such life in gold that to 265 00:17:01,559 --> 00:17:04,400 the sight it seemed the Hind itself, for every hue 266 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,559 the hound, and also answering the view that all admired, 267 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:13,119 all I observed beside his inner weed so rarely beautified, 268 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,240 that dumb amaze it bread and was as thin as 269 00:17:16,279 --> 00:17:20,200 any dry and tender onion skin as soft twas too, 270 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,720 and glistered like the sun. The women were to loving 271 00:17:23,759 --> 00:17:27,400 wonder one by him and by his weeds. But by 272 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,680 the way, you must excuse me that I cannot say 273 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,079 he brought this suit from home, or had it there 274 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,480 sent for some present, or perhaps elsewhere, received it for 275 00:17:36,599 --> 00:17:39,799 his guest gift. For your lord had friends not few, 276 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,960 the fleet did not afford many that had not fewer. 277 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,880 I bestowed a well edged sword on him, a robe 278 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,759 that flowed in folds in fullness, and did reach his 279 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:53,640 feet the richest purple. Brought him to his fleet with 280 00:17:53,759 --> 00:17:57,039 all my honor. And besides, to add to all his 281 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,960 sifted circumstance, he had a herald there in height, a 282 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:04,160 little more put from the earth, that thicker shoulders wore, 283 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,240 a swarthy companion, and a curled head. His name Eurybtes. 284 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,960 And much instead he stood your King employ'd in most command, 285 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,039 since most of all his mind could understand. When all 286 00:18:18,079 --> 00:18:21,400 these signs she knew, for chiefly true desire of moan 287 00:18:21,559 --> 00:18:25,839 upon her beauties grew. And yet even that desire sufficed, 288 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:30,640 she said, till this, my guest, a wretched state arrayed, 289 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,799 your ill used person. But from this hour forth you 290 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,680 shall be honor'd and find all the worth that fits 291 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,279 a friend. Those weeds these hands bestowed from out my wardrobe, 292 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,079 those gold buttons sewed before for closure and for ornament. 293 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:48,559 But never more must his return present the person that 294 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:53,119 gave those adornment state. And therefore under an abhorred fate 295 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,599 was he induced to feed the common fame to visit 296 00:18:56,759 --> 00:19:01,160 vile troy, I too vile to name no more. Yet 297 00:19:01,279 --> 00:19:04,880 morn said he nor thus see pined your lovely person, 298 00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:09,000 weeping waste the mind. And yet I blame you not, 299 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,160 for any deem that weds one young and brings to 300 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,200 him his name, whatever man he is, will mourn his 301 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,599 loss much more respectful. Then must show your woes that weep. 302 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,480 Thus for Ulysses, who Fame says, was equal with the 303 00:19:23,519 --> 00:19:26,839 gods in all his ways. But where no cause is 304 00:19:27,079 --> 00:19:30,279 there must be no moan. And therefore hear me my 305 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,400 relation shall lay the clear truth naked to your view. 306 00:19:34,519 --> 00:19:37,680 I heard amongst the thesprots, for most true that Lord 307 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:41,599 Ulysses lived and stood just now on his return for home. 308 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,119 That wealth did flow in his possession, which he made 309 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,319 not known, but begg'd amongst the people, since alone he 310 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,480 quite was left. For all his men were lost in 311 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:55,480 getting off from the Trunacrian coast. Jovin the sun was 312 00:19:55,519 --> 00:19:58,559 wroth with them, for rape made of his oxen, and 313 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,359 no man let scape the rugged deeps of Neptune. Only 314 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,680 he the ship's keel. Only keeping was by sea, cast 315 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,400 on the fair Phaeacian continent, where men survived that are 316 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,240 the God's descent, and like a god receiv'd him, gave 317 00:20:14,319 --> 00:20:17,759 him heaps of wealthy gifts, and would conduct his steps 318 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:22,400 themselves safe home, which he might long ago his pleasure make. 319 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,839 But Prophet would not. So he gathered going, and had 320 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,400 mighty store of gold and safeguard so beyond the shore 321 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,880 that common sails kept. His high flood of wit bore 322 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,319 glorious top, and all the world for it hath far 323 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,480 exceeded all his feet on. Told that doth the scepter 324 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:45,920 of Thesprotia hold, who swore to me in household sacrifice. 325 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,119 The ship was launched, and men to man the prize 326 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:52,559 that soon should set him on his country. Earth showed 327 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,240 me the goods enough to serve the birth that in 328 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:58,039 the tenth age of his seed should spring yet in 329 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:03,240 his court contain'd. But then the King, your husband for Dodona, 330 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,079 was in way that from the oraculous oak he might 331 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,559 display Jove's will. What course for home would best prevail 332 00:21:10,279 --> 00:21:13,400 to come in pomp or bear a secret sail? But 333 00:21:13,599 --> 00:21:17,160 me the King despatch'd in course before a ship then 334 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:20,680 bound for the Dulichian shore. So thus you see his 335 00:21:20,799 --> 00:21:24,039 safety whom you mourn, who now is passing near, and 336 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,319 his return no more will punish with delays, But see 337 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,200 his friends and country, all which truth to thee I'll 338 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,359 seal with sacred oath. Be witness Jove, thou first and 339 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,240 best of all, the throned above, and thou house of 340 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:41,880 the great Laertes, heir to whose high roofs I tender 341 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,759 my repair, that what I tell the Queen event shall 342 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:49,920 crown this year Ulysses shall possess his own nay Ere 343 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,720 the next month ends shall here arrive, nay ere it 344 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:58,160 enters here abide alive. O may this prove, said she 345 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,599 gifts French, then should make your name the most renowned 346 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:05,920 of men. But tis of me received, and must so 347 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,000 sort that nor my lord shall ever see his court, 348 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,599 nor you gain your deduction. Thence for now the altered 349 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,680 house doth no such man allow, as was Ulysses, if 350 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:20,200 he ever were to entertain a reverend passenger and give 351 00:22:20,279 --> 00:22:24,400 him fair dismission. But maids see ye bathe his feet, 352 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,359 and then with tapestry best sheets and blankets, make his bed, 353 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,759 and lay soft waistcoats by him that lodged warm. He 354 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,240 may even till the golden seated morning's ray enjoy good rest, 355 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:40,920 and then with her first light bathe and give alms 356 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:44,200 that cherish appetite. He may apply within our hall and 357 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:48,519 sit safe by Telemachus. Or if the unfit and harmful 358 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:51,440 mind of any be so base to grieve his age again, 359 00:22:52,039 --> 00:22:55,359 let none give grace of doing any deed, he shall command, 360 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,000 how wroth soever to his barbarous hand. For how shall ye, 361 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,519 you guessed, know me for a dame that passed so far? Nay, 362 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,640 turn and wine the fame of other dames for wisdom 363 00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:10,640 and the frame of household usage. If your poor thin weeds, 364 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,839 I let draw on you want and worser deeds that 365 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:17,880 may perhaps cause here your latest day. The life of 366 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,559 man is short and flies away. And if the ruler's 367 00:23:21,799 --> 00:23:26,480 self of households be ungentle studying in humanity. The rest 368 00:23:26,599 --> 00:23:29,720 prove worse, But he bears all the blame. All men 369 00:23:29,839 --> 00:23:34,519 will living vow against his name, mischiefs and miseries, and 370 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:39,279 dead supply with bitter epitaphs his memory. But if himself 371 00:23:39,319 --> 00:23:43,319 be noble, noble things doing and knowing, all his underlings 372 00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:46,119 will imitate his No bless and all guests give it 373 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:51,400 in many, many interests. But worthiest queen said he, where 374 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,759 you command baths and rich beds for me, I scorn 375 00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:58,119 to stand on such state now, nor ever thought it yet. 376 00:23:58,799 --> 00:24:01,720 Since first I left the snowy hills of crete, where 377 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,119 once I fell a shipboard, those thoughts fled, I love 378 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,920 to take now as long since my bed. Though I 379 00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:13,039 began the use with sleepless nights, I many a darkness 380 00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:16,400 with right homely rites have spent ere this hour and 381 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:19,519 desire the morn would come and make sleep to the 382 00:24:19,559 --> 00:24:23,039 world a scorn. Nor run these dainty baths in my 383 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,799 rude head, nor any handmaid to your service bread shall 384 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,440 touch my ill kept feet unless there live some poor 385 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,559 old drudge here that hath learned to give old men 386 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,440 good usage. And no work will fly as having suffered 387 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,359 ill as much as I. But if there lived one 388 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,200 such in your command, I will not shame to give 389 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,400 my foot her hand. She gave this answer, Oh, my 390 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,640 loved guest, there never entered these kind rofs for rest, 391 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:54,240 stranger or friend, that so much wisdom laid engage for 392 00:24:54,319 --> 00:24:57,799 guest rights as your lips have paid. There lives an 393 00:24:57,839 --> 00:25:00,559 old maid in my charge, that no the good you 394 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,000 speak of, by her many woes, that nourished and brought 395 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,079 up with curious care. The unhappy man, your old familiar, 396 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,240 even since his mother let him view the light and oft, 397 00:25:12,279 --> 00:25:15,480 hath felt in her weak arms his weight. And she, 398 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,079 though now much weaker, shall apply her maiden service to 399 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,599 your modesty. Eurycleia, rise and wash the feet of one 400 00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:27,799 that is of one age. With your sovereign gone, such hands, 401 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,519 such feet hath, though of altered grace. Much grief in 402 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,519 men will bring un change of pace. She, from her 403 00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:39,440 aged slumber, waked, did clear her heavy eyes, and instantly 404 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,799 to hear her Sovereign's name had work enough to dry 405 00:25:42,839 --> 00:25:46,279 her cheeks from tears. And to his memory these moans 406 00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:50,160 did offer O my son said she. I can never 407 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,519 take grief enough for thee whom goodness hurts, and whom 408 00:25:53,599 --> 00:25:57,400 even Jove's high spleen. Since thou art Jove like hates 409 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:00,359 the most of men, for none hath offered him so 410 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,599 many thighs, nor such whole hecatomes of sacrifice, fat and 411 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,799 selected as thy zeal. Hath done for all, but praying 412 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:11,720 that thy noble son, thy happy age, might see at 413 00:26:11,759 --> 00:26:15,559 state of man. And yet hath Jove, with Miss Sumerian 414 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,119 put out the light of his returning day, as you yourself, 415 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,759 o father, in your way, took these fair roofs for 416 00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:26,440 hospitable rights, Yet find for them are dogged women's spites. 417 00:26:27,079 --> 00:26:30,839 So he, in like course, being driven to proof long time, 418 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:33,640 ere this what such a royal roof would yield. His 419 00:26:33,799 --> 00:26:38,400 miseries found such usage there. And you now flying the 420 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,640 foul language here, and many a filthy fact of our 421 00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:45,559 fair dames, fly me like them, and put on causeless 422 00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:48,640 shames to let me cleanse your feet. For not the 423 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,839 cause the Queen's command yields is the power that draws 424 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,680 my will to wash your feet. But what I do 425 00:26:54,799 --> 00:26:58,440 proceeds from her charge, and your reverence too, since I 426 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,440 in soul am stricken with a ruth of your distresses 427 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,599 and past show of truth, your strangeness, claiming little interest 428 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,039 in my affections. And yet many a guest of poor 429 00:27:09,079 --> 00:27:12,359 condition hath been harbored here, But never any did so 430 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,000 write up here, like King Ulysses, as yourself for state, 431 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,480 both of your stature, voice and very gait. So all 432 00:27:20,519 --> 00:27:23,920 have said said he, that ever yet had the proportions 433 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,119 of our figures met in their observance. So right your 434 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,000 eye proves in your soul your judging faculty. Thus took 435 00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:33,960 she up a cauldron brightly scoured to cleanse his feet 436 00:27:34,039 --> 00:27:37,599 in and into it poured store of cold wave, which 437 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,839 on the fire she set, and therein bathed, being temperately 438 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,640 heat her sovereign's feet, who turned him from the light, 439 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,720 since suddenly he doubted her conceit so rightly, touching at 440 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,079 his state before a scar, now seeing on his foot 441 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,319 that bore, an old note to discern him might describe 442 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:01,000 the absolute truth, which witness by her eye was straight approved. 443 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,759 He first received this sore as in Parnassus's tops, a 444 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:08,519 white toothed bore. He stood in chase with Awe, who 445 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:12,000 struck him there at such time as he lived the 446 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:16,839 sojourner with his grandsire Autolicus, who the art of theft 447 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,119 and swearing not out of the heart, but by equivocation, 448 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:24,200 first adorned your witty man with awe, and was suborne 449 00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:28,720 by Joe's descent ingenious Mercury, who did bestow it, since 450 00:28:28,759 --> 00:28:31,559 so many a thigh of lambs and kids he had 451 00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:35,480 on him bestowed in sacred flames, who, therefore, when he vowed, 452 00:28:35,559 --> 00:28:39,119 was ever with him. And this man imposed Ulysses name, 453 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,640 the light being first disclosed to his first sight. Then, 454 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,920 when his grandsire came to see the then prefer of 455 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,480 his fame his loved daughter, the first supper done, Euryclea 456 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:53,279 put in his lap her son and prayed him to 457 00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:56,599 bethink and give his name, Since that desire did all 458 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:01,440 desires inflame. Daughter and son in law, said he led, 459 00:29:01,519 --> 00:29:04,200 then the name that I shall give him stand with men. 460 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,119 Since I arrived here at the hour of pain in 461 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,440 which mine own kind entrails did sustain, moaned for my 462 00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:14,480 daughter's yet unended throes. And when so many men's and 463 00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:18,720 women's woes in joint compassion met of human birth, brought 464 00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:22,680 forth to attend the many feeding earth, let Odysseus be 465 00:29:22,799 --> 00:29:26,279 his name as one exposed a just constraint of all 466 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:29,640 men's mown. When here at home he is arrived at 467 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,400 state of man's first youth, he shall initiate his practiced 468 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,880 feet in travel made abroad and two parnasses, where mine 469 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,759 own abode, and chief means lie address his way, or 470 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:44,680 I will give him from my open treasury, what shall 471 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,599 return him well and fit the fame of one that 472 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,759 had the honor of his name. For these fair gifts 473 00:29:50,759 --> 00:29:53,680 he went and found all grace of hands and words 474 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,359 in him, and all his race. Amphythia, his mother's mother, too, 475 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,480 applied her to his love withal to do a grand 476 00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:06,079 dame's welcomes both his fair eyes kissed and brows. And 477 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,160 then commanded to assist were all her sons by their 478 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,119 respected sire in furnishing a feast, whose ears did fire 479 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,440 their minds with his command, who home straight led a 480 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:21,519 five years old male ox felled, slew and flayed, gathered 481 00:30:21,519 --> 00:30:24,799 about him, cut him up with art, spitted and roasted, 482 00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:28,799 and his every part divided orderly. So all the day 483 00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:31,839 they spent in feast, no man went his way without 484 00:30:31,839 --> 00:30:35,799 his fit fill. When the sun was set and darkness rose. 485 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:39,440 They slept till the day's fire had the enlightened earth, 486 00:30:40,079 --> 00:30:44,240 and then on hunting went both hounds in all Ataucolus's descent, 487 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:49,559 in whose guide did divine Ulysses go, climbed steep parnasses, 488 00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:54,319 on whose forehead grow all sylvan offsprings round, and soon 489 00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:58,359 they reached the concaves, whence airs sounding vapors fetched their 490 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,279 loud descent. As soon as any sun had from the ocean, 491 00:31:02,359 --> 00:31:06,119 where his waters run in silent deepness, raised his golden head. 492 00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:10,160 The early huntsmen all the hill had spread their hounds 493 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,599 before them. On the searching trail. They near, and, ever 494 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,880 eager to assail Ulysses, brandishing a lengthful lance, of whose 495 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,759 first flight he longed to prove. The chance then found 496 00:31:21,759 --> 00:31:25,039 they lodged a bore of bulk extreme in such a 497 00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:28,720 creach as never any beam the sun shot pierced, nor 498 00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:32,319 any pass let find the moist impressions of the fiercest wind, 499 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,559 nor any storm the sternest winter drives such proof it was, 500 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:40,640 yet all within lay leaves in mighty thickness, And through 501 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,319 all this flew the hound's loud mouths, the sounds, the 502 00:31:44,359 --> 00:31:48,559 tumult threw and altogether roused the boar that rushed amongst 503 00:31:48,599 --> 00:31:52,519 their thickest all his bristles pushed from forth his rough neck, 504 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,240 and with flaming eyes, stood close and dared all on 505 00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:01,920 which horrid prize Ulysses first chart arched whom above the knee, 506 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,559 the savage struck and raised it crookedly along the skin, 507 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,920 yet never reached the bone. Ulysses glance yet threw him 508 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,759 quite was thrown at his right shoulder, entering at his left. 509 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,279 The bright head passaged to his keenness cleft, and showed 510 00:32:17,359 --> 00:32:20,640 his point guilt. With the gushing gore. Down in the 511 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,160 dust fell the extended boar, and forth his life flew 512 00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:29,519 to Ulysses round his uncle drew, who, woeful for his wound, 513 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,319 with all art, bounded up and with a charm stayed 514 00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:36,880 the blood went home. And when the harm received full cure, 515 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,039 with gifts and all event of joy and love, to 516 00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:43,880 his loved home, they sent their honored nephew, whose return 517 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,519 his sire and reverend mother took with joy's entire and 518 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,880 quired all passages, all which he gave in good relation. 519 00:32:51,279 --> 00:32:54,559 Nor of all would save his wound from utterance. By 520 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:58,839 whose scar he came to be discovered by this aged dame, which, 521 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,599 when she cleansing th elt and noted well down from 522 00:33:02,599 --> 00:33:05,759 her lap into the cauldron fell his weighty foot that 523 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,359 made the brass resound, turned all aside, and on the 524 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,720 embruid ground spilt all the water, joy and grief together 525 00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:18,039 her breast invaded and of weeping weather. Her eyes stood full, 526 00:33:18,799 --> 00:33:22,799 her small voice stuck within her part expressive till at 527 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,759 length his chin she took and spake to him, O son, 528 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:31,480 said she thou art Ulysses, nor canst other be? Nor 529 00:33:31,559 --> 00:33:34,039 could I know thee yet till all my king I 530 00:33:34,119 --> 00:33:37,960 had gone over with the warmed spring. Then looked she 531 00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:40,599 for the Queen to tell her all, and yet knew 532 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,759 nothing sure, though nought could fall in compass of all 533 00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:47,720 thoughts to make her doubt. Minerva that distraction struck throughout 534 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,680 her mind's rapped forces, that she might not tell Ulysses, 535 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,200 noting yet her aptness well with one hand took her 536 00:33:55,319 --> 00:33:58,480 chin and made all show of favor to her. With 537 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:02,000 the other drew her offered parting closer asked her why 538 00:34:02,079 --> 00:34:05,720 she whose kind breast had nursed so tenderly his infant 539 00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:09,280 life would now his age destroy, though twenty years had 540 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,360 held him from the joy of his loved country. But 541 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:15,880 since only she God putting her in mind, now knew 542 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,480 twas he he charged her silence, and to let no 543 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,360 ear in all the court more know his being there. 544 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,079 Lest if God gave into his equal hand the insulting 545 00:34:26,119 --> 00:34:29,880 Woo's lives, he did not stand on any partial respect 546 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,239 with her, because his nurse and to the rest prefer 547 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,400 her safety. Therefore, but when they should feel his punishing finger, 548 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:41,519 give her equal steel. What words said she fly your 549 00:34:41,519 --> 00:34:45,559 retentive powers. You know you lock your counsels in your towers, 550 00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:48,480 in my firm bosom, and that I am far from 551 00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:52,079 those loose frailties, like an iron bar or a bolt 552 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:56,079 of solid stone. I will contain and tell you this. Besides, 553 00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,480 that if you gained by God's good aid the war's 554 00:34:59,519 --> 00:35:03,599 lives in and yours, what dames are here their shameless paramours, 555 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,559 and have done most dishonor to your worth, My information 556 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,559 well shall paint you forth. It shall not need said 557 00:35:11,559 --> 00:35:15,400 he myself will soon While thus I ask here set 558 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,960 on every one my sure observance of the worst and 559 00:35:18,119 --> 00:35:21,599 best be thou then silent, and leave God the rest. 560 00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:26,320 This said the old dame. For more water went. The 561 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,519 rest was all upon the pavement spent by known ulysses. 562 00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:34,480 Foot more brought, and he supplied beside the sweetest ointments. 563 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,000 She his seat drew near the fire to keep him warm, 564 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,760 and with his pierced rags hiding close his harm, the 565 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:45,760 queen came near and said, yet, guest, afford your further 566 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,159 patience till but in a word, I tell my woes 567 00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:52,280 to you, for well I know that rest sweet hour. 568 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,079 Her soft foot orders now when all poor men, how 569 00:35:56,159 --> 00:36:00,000 much soever grieved, would gladly get their woe watched powers relief. 570 00:36:01,119 --> 00:36:03,559 But God hath given my grief a heart so great 571 00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:06,440 it will not down with rest. And so I set 572 00:36:06,519 --> 00:36:10,119 my judgment up to make it my delight. All day 573 00:36:10,159 --> 00:36:13,320 I mourn yet nothing let the right I owe my charge, 574 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,320 both in my work and maids. And when the night 575 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:20,119 brings rest to others, aids, I toss my bed distress 576 00:36:20,199 --> 00:36:23,599 with twenty points, slaughtering the powers that to my turning 577 00:36:23,679 --> 00:36:28,039 joints convey the vital heat. And as all night Pandarius's 578 00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:31,559 daughter poor edon sings, clad in the verdure of the 579 00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:35,639 yearly springs when she for Italus, her loved son. By 580 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,679 Zephus's issue in his men is done to cruel death 581 00:36:39,199 --> 00:36:42,280 pours out her hourly moan and draws the ears to 582 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,000 her of every one. So flows my moan that cuts 583 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,559 into my mind, And here and there gives my discourse 584 00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:53,840 the wind uncertain, whether I shall with my son abide 585 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,360 still here the safe possession and guard of all goods, 586 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,719 reverence to the bed of my loved lord, and to 587 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,159 put my far off spread fame with the people, putting 588 00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:07,119 still in use, or follow any best Greek I can 589 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,639 choose to his fit house with treasure infinite one to 590 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,599 his nuptials, while the infant plight and want of judgment 591 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,159 kept my son and guide. He was not willing with 592 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,760 my being a bride, nor with my parting from his court. 593 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,760 But now arrived at man state, he would have me 594 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,280 vow my love to some one of my woars here 595 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,639 and leave his court offended that their cheers should so 596 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,360 consume his free possessions. To settle then a choice in 597 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,599 these my moans here in expound a dream that did 598 00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:42,960 engrave my sleeping fancy. Twenty geese. I have all which methought, 599 00:37:43,159 --> 00:37:46,440 mine eye saw tasting wheat in water, steeped and joy'd 600 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,960 to see them eat. When straight a crook beaked eagle 601 00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:52,880 from a hill stooped and trusted all their necks, and 602 00:37:53,039 --> 00:37:57,039 all did kill. When all left scatter'd on the pavement. 603 00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,880 There she took her wing up to the God's fair sphere. 604 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,719 I even abid my dream, did weep and mourn to 605 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,880 see the eagle with so shrewd a turn stoop my 606 00:38:07,039 --> 00:38:11,480 sad turrets. When methought there came about my mornings many 607 00:38:11,519 --> 00:38:15,880 a Grecian dame to cheer my sorrows, in whose most extreme. 608 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,000 The hawk came back, and on the prominent beam that 609 00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:21,920 crossed my chamber fell and used to me a human 610 00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:26,679 voice that sounded horribly, and said, be confident I carry 611 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,400 us a seed. This is no dream, but what shall chance? 612 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,800 Indeed the geese the wooers are The eagle eye was 613 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,679 heretofore a fowl, But now imply thy husband's being, and 614 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,400 am come to give the wooer's death, that on my 615 00:38:41,559 --> 00:38:46,480 treasure live With this sleep left me and my waking way, 616 00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:49,679 I took to try if any violent prey were made 617 00:38:49,679 --> 00:38:53,280 of those my fowls, which well enough I as before 618 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,559 found feeding at their trough their yoaded wheat. O woman, 619 00:38:57,639 --> 00:39:01,679 he replied, thy dream can no interpretation bide. But what 620 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,239 the Eagle maid, who was your lord and said himself, 621 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,400 would sure effect afford to what he told you, that 622 00:39:08,519 --> 00:39:11,880 confusion to all the wars should appear, and none escape 623 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:17,119 the fate and death he had decreed. She answered him, Oh, guest, 624 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,079 these dreams exceed the art of man to interpret and 625 00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:24,320 appear without all choice or form, nor ever were performed 626 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,519 to all at all parts. But there are to these 627 00:39:27,599 --> 00:39:31,840 light dreams that, like thin Vapor's fair two leaved gates, 628 00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:35,679 the one of Ivory the other horn. Those dreams that 629 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,719 fantasy takes from the polish'd ivory port delude the dreamer, ever, 630 00:39:40,039 --> 00:39:44,079 and no truth include those that the glittering horn gate 631 00:39:44,199 --> 00:39:48,400 that's abroad do. Evermore, some certain truth abode. But this 632 00:39:48,599 --> 00:39:51,719 my dream I hold of no such sort to fly from. Thence, 633 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,159 yet whichever so ported had access from it did highly 634 00:39:56,199 --> 00:39:59,599 please my son and me. And this my thoughts profess 635 00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:03,079 that day that lights me from Ulysses court, shall both 636 00:40:03,159 --> 00:40:07,880 my infamy and curse consort. I therefore propose to propose 637 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,320 them now in strong contention ulysses bow, which he that 638 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,039 easily draws, and from his draft shoots through twelve axes, 639 00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:19,199 as did his shaft, all set up in a row, 640 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,159 and from them all his stand far off kept firm. 641 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,960 My fortunes shall dispose and take me to his house 642 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000 from hence where I was wed a maid, in confluence 643 00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:32,440 of feast and riches, such a court here, then, as 644 00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,599 I shall ever in my dreams retain, do not, said 645 00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:40,400 he defer the gameful prize, but set to task their 646 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,760 importunities with something else than nuptials. For your lord will 647 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,840 to his court and kingdom be restored before they thread 648 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,239 those steals or draw his bow. O guest replied, Penelope, 649 00:40:52,679 --> 00:40:55,360 would you thus sit and please me with your speech? 650 00:40:55,639 --> 00:40:59,159 Mine ears would never mind eyelids close their spheres, But 651 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,440 none can live without the death of sleep. The immortals 652 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:06,440 in our mortal memories keep our ends and deaths by sleep, dividing, 653 00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:09,599 so as by the fate and portion of our woe 654 00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,760 are time spent here to let us nightly try that 655 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,599 which we live, as much live as we die, in 656 00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:19,480 which youse I will to my bed ascend which I 657 00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:22,719 bedo with tears and sigh passed end through all my 658 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,239 hours spent since I lost my joy for vile Leod, 659 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,880 never to be named Troy. Yet there I'll prove for sleep, 660 00:41:31,039 --> 00:41:33,559 which take you here or on the earth, if that 661 00:41:33,679 --> 00:41:37,800 your custom were, or have a bed disposed for warmer rest. 662 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,960 Thus she left with her ladies, her old guest, ascended 663 00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,079 her fair chamber and her bed, whose sight did ever 664 00:41:45,199 --> 00:41:48,199 duly make her shed tears for her lord, which still 665 00:41:48,199 --> 00:41:51,360 her eyes did steep, till Pallas shut them with the 666 00:41:51,440 --> 00:42:04,719 lightsome sleep. End of the nineteenth book St.