Without your company? The Graces always be with me!
Emblem.
Si nihil attuleris, ibis Homere foras.
THE EIGHTEENTH IDILLION.
Argument.
Twelve noble Spartan Virgins are brought in singing, in the evening, at the chamber door of Menelaus and Helena on their Wedding Day. And first they prettily jest with the Bridegroom, then they praise Helena, last they wish them both joy of their marriage. Therefore this Idillion is entitled Helen's Epithalamion that is "Helen's Wedding Song."