The maid by wanderings vexed.

Prom. I will say plainly all thou seek'st to know;

Not in dark tangled riddles, but plain speech,

As it is meet that friends to friends should speak;

Thou see'st Prometheus who gave fire to men.

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Io. O thou to men as benefactor known,

Why, poor Prometheus, sufferest thou this pain?

Prom. I have but now mine own woes ceased to wail.

Io. Wilt thou not then bestow this boon on me?