Chorus.
What counter-stroke to this dealt Zeus' haught Queen?
King.
Why, then she found a keeper for the cow,
Him that hath eyes which look all ways at once.
Chorus.
And what was he, this all-beholding one,
Sole neatherd of a solitary cow?
King.
Argus, earth's child, the same that Hermes slew.
Chorus.
And the device that followed? What thing else
Prepared she for the heifer heaven-accursed?
King.
She did afflict her with the gnat that stings,
A drover's goad-prick to stampeding kine.
Chorus.
They call him 'Gad-fly' on the banks of Nile.
King.
What? Did he drive her forth from her own land
As far as Nile?
Chorus.
He did so: and thy tale
Tallies in each particular with mine.
King.
And is it true then that she reached Canopus
And Memphis far inland?
