A rogue you are, and quick to understand,
Such words are these you have devised to say!”[[11]]
And then, knowing that he was really apprehensive of danger, her voice dropped to a deeper tone, as she gave him the solemn oath of the great gods.
“Now Earth I take to record here to-day,
And the wide heaven above us, and the dread
Water abhorred that trickles down alway,
“(Which is the mightiest and most dread to break
Of all the oaths the blessed Gods may take)
No practice for your hurt will I devise,
But take such thought and counsel for your sake