THE. What is that thou fearest?
OED. They will come hither.
THE. Thy guards will see to that.
OED. Beware, lest, if you leave me—
THE. Tell not me,
I know my part.
OED. Terror will have me speak.
THE. Terror and I are strangers.
OED. But their threats!
Thou canst not know—
THE. I know that none shall force
Thee from this ground against thy will. Full oft
Have threatening words in wrath been voluble,
Yet, when the mind regained her place again,
The threatened evil vanished. So to-day
Bold words of boastful meaning have proclaimed
Thy forcible abduction by thy kin.
Yet shall they find (I know it) the voyage from Thebes,
On such a quest, long and scarce navigable.
[page 281][664-706] Whate’er my thought, if Phoebus sent thee forth,
I would bid thee have no fear. And howsoe’er,
My name will shield thee from all injury.
CHORUS.