I see, and no false image cheats my sight,

I see it plainly, there, within the hall,875

A royal feast is spread, and thronged with guests,

Like that last fatal feast of ours at Troy.

The couches gleam with Trojan tapestries;

Their wine they quaff from rare old cups of gold

That once cheered great Assaracus; and see,

The king himself, in 'broidered vestment clad,

Sits high in triumph at the table's head,880

With Priam's noble spoils upon his breast.