SECOND PART

Reenter from the palace Inachus, with Argeia and Io.

INACHUS.

That but a small and easy thing now seems,

Which from my house when I came forth at noon

A dream was and beyond the reach of man.

’Tis now a fancy of the will, a word,

Liberty’s lightest prize. Yet still as one

Who loiters on the threshold of delight,