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None tended me. Alone I bare my child.

What, is thy cot so friendless? And this wild

So far from aid?

Who seeks for friendship sake

A beggar's house?

I will go in, and make

Due worship for thy child, the Peace-bringer.

To all thy need I would be minister.

Then to my lord, where by the meadow side

He prays the woodland nymphs.

Ye handmaids, guide

My chariot to the stall, and when ye guess

The rite draws near its end, in readiness

Be here again. Then to my lord! I owe

My lord this gladness, too.

[The Attendants depart;, left alone, proceeds to enter the house.

Welcome below

My narrow roof! But have a care withal,

A grime of smoke lies deep upon the wall.

Soil not thy robe!