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300 Maltreat you, and nowhere relax from ills?

Is there no term of suffering lying before thee? Pr. Nay, none at all, but when to him it may seem good.

Ch. And how will it seem good? What hope? See you not that

You have erred? But how you 've erred, for me to tell

Not pleasant, and to you a pain. But these things

Let us omit, and seek you some release from sufferings. Pr. Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his

Foot, to admonish and remind those faring

Ill. But all these things I knew;

Willing, willing I erred, I'll not deny;

Mortals assisting I myself found trouble.

Not indeed with penalties like these thought I

That I should pine on lofty rocks,

Gaining this drear unneighbored hill.

But bewail not my present woes,

But alighting, the fortunes creeping on

Hear ye, that ye may learn all to the end.

Obey me, obey, sympathize

With him now suffering. Thus indeed affliction,

Wandering round, sits now by one, then by another. Ch. Not to unwilling ears do you urge

This, Prometheus.