Crassus,
A boy! Then what
am 1?
Aucia.
That is the key-word of the comedy.
‘You thought you had two vices at your need;
But she had Jove and you had Ganymede.
[They are struck dumb and still with amase-
‘ment. Axtcta claps her hands four times,
Sweep through the air, bright blaze of eagle-wings!
Crassus, sub pennis, penis! How he swings
His bulk from yonder sightless poise, to bear
Me back to the Dominion of the
Where I shall bear the cup of Jupiter!
Blind babes, love one another, no less true
Because the gods have deigned to dwell with you!
[The eagle bears GANYMEDE aloft.
Crassus,
Adela! these are mysteries too great
For you and me to estimate.
But, widowed both, come, seck domestic charms
As we were wont, in one another's arms!
‘What perfect moss for you to lie upon!
ADELA.
am your wife, dear Crassus.
(sotto voce) Oh, my swant
CURTAIN,
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