Called on Laertes’ son.
3.
“Wisest of men, Ulysses, tell me true,
If skill or grace to keep the peace may be
Among the lawless princes, here that sue
For Helen’s hand; if ever as of old
My house from curse of bloodshed may go free,
Do thou the rede unfold.”
Straight answered him the wise Ulysses then,
“O son of Thestius, ’tis in my mind,