These cunning toils, and hadst unwound thee from them.

[Exeunt all, except Prometheus, who is left chained.

Prometheus.[n9]

O divine ether, and swift-winged winds,

And river-fountains, and of ocean waves

The multitudinous laughter,[n10] and thou Earth,

Boon mother of us all, and thou bright round

Of the all-seeing Sun, you I invoke!

Behold what ignominy of causeless wrongs

I suffer from the gods, myself a god.