Lent hospitable, as to suppliant due:

And more for this, e’en from the heart they gave

All honour and observance. So he lived,

Exulting in his graceful-ankled spouse

Alcmena. When the rapid year roll’d round,

We, far unlike in stature and in soul,

Were born, thy sire and I: him Jove bereaved

Of wisdom; who from his parental home

Went forth, and to the fell Eurystheus bore

His homage. Wretch! for he most sure bewail’d