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 How mad is he whom drinking makes not glad! For drink means strength renewed for love-making, Aye, and forgetfulness of ills. What then, Shall I not buy me such a drink, and bid Fool Cyclops with his one mid eye go hang?"
 * aye, dancing too,
 * aye, dancing too,

In this laudable frame of mind the Falstaff of Olympus makes off on his sheep-stealing errand; and the Chorus, which hitherto has modestly stood aside and left the talking to him, now first addresses the new-comer:—

Hear you, Ulysses, we would talk with you. Well, on then, as you come like friends to a friend. Ye have taken Troy, and laid your hands on Helen? And utterly destroyed the race of Priam. 'Well, when ye had got the girl then, did ye not All of you take your sport with her in turn, Seeing she delights in marrying many men? The wanton wretch!" &c.