Ah! there was pursuit in Ladon, but it was pursuit which always closed easily in capture. What I am afraid of is that here capture may prove the exception. Your Highness ... but a slight family connection and our adversities are making me strangely familiar....
Phœbus.
Speak on, my good Pan.
Pan.
Your Highness was once something of a botanist?
Phœbus.
A botanist? Ah, scarcely! A little arboriculture, the laurel; a little horticulture, the sun-flower. Those varieties seem entirely absent here, and I have no thought of replacing them.
Pan.
The last thing I should dream of suggesting would be a hortus siccus....