And she—the captive, the soothsayer also

And couchmate of this man, oracle-speaker,

Faithful bedfellow,—ay, the sailors' benches

They wore in common, nor unpunished did so,

Since he is—thus! While, as for her,—swan-fashion,

Her latest having chanted,—dying wailing

She lies,—to him, a sweetheart: me she brought to

My bed's by-nicety, the whet of dalliance.

Cho. Alas, that some

Fate would come