Even this harshness of fate; for if my son
Shall know me as I am, not as a merchant
Should I return at ease, that men might ask
Whether Ulysses were returned or no;
Rather in blood than doubt.—Here on this bench
I’ll wait him, nor myself be first to speak:
And ’twill be tried for once how a man’s son
Shall know his father, never having seen him.
Re-enter Telemachus.
Tel. Why, who art thou? Not he that on this bench