Strained my obedience: yestereve I gave

Warning to fly to Lord Amphinomus;

For which if I be blamed, what is our risk?

At the hands of these wretches my death; or else

Return denied me to my proper self,

Condemned to live unrecognizable,

A withered, age-stricken beggar, full of scorn.

Tel. Already I love thee, even as now thou art.

Ul. O son, this shame stifles me. Where’s Eumæus?

I incline to tell him.