O' the creature next assailed,—nay, should it prove
Only the creature that came forward now
To play the critic upon Herakles!
"Many the guests,"—so he soliloquized
In musings burdensome to breast before,
When it seemed not too prudent tongue should wag,—
"Many, and from all quarters of this world,
The guests I now have known frequent our house,
For whom I spread the banquet; but than this,
Never a worse one did I yet receive