Who rubbed his eyes, and scann’d the multitude.)

Continued Pluto: “Thine the fault shall be,

If thou dost not enjoy felicity:—

For in thy mansion vassals thou shalt have;

A guard of honour, powerful and brave,

Shall be, Friend Bassareus, at thy own command;

And in my senate thou, at my right hand,

Shall hold the sceptre of unrighteousness;

Thy chief attendants shall be Lachesis,

And Clotho, and their sister Atropos;[153]