We seem ungrateful.

Pen.Didst thou never ask

Of Menelaus, how he came to know

Thy father’s fate?

Tel.It was the wizard Proteus,

Whom strangely he entamed and all his art,

When he lay windbound in the isle of Pharos;

Who told him, for he held him fast for all

His magic shifts and slippery changefulness,

Becoming first a bearded lion, thereafter