_ Who, then, is to release thee, Zeus
unwilling?
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems
_Io. _ Of god or mortal? If to be spoken, tell.
_Pr. _ What matters which? For these things are not to be told.
_Io. _ By a wife will he be driven from the throne?
_Pr. _ Ay, she will bring forth a son superior to his father.
_Io. _ Is there no refuge for him from this fate?
_Pr. _ None, surely, till I may be released from bonds.
_Io.
_ Who, then, is to release thee, Zeus unwilling?
_Pr. _ He must be some one of thy descendants.
_Io. _ How sayest thou? that my child will deliver thee from ills?
_Pr. _ Third of thy race after ten other births.
_Io. _ This oracle is not yet easy to be guessed.
_Pr. _ But do not seek to understand thy sufferings.
_Io. _ First proffering gain to me, do not then withhold it.
_Pr. _ I'll grant thee one of two relations.
