. Iliad and Odyssey. Done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Butcher, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. g in a meadow, so mightily roared the fair doorssmitten by the key; and speedily they flew open before she stept on to the high floor, where the coffers stood,wherein the fragrant raiment was stored. Thence she stretchedforth her hand, and took the bow from off the pin, all inthe bright case which sheathed it around. And there she satdown, and set the case upon her knees, and cried aloud andwept, and took out the bow of her lord. Now when she hadher fill of tearful lament, she set
. Iliad and Odyssey. Done into English prose by Andrew Lang, Butcher, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. g in a meadow, so mightily roared the fair doorssmitten by the key; and speedily they flew open before she stept on to the high floor, where the coffers stood,wherein the fragrant raiment was stored. Thence she stretchedforth her hand, and took the bow from off the pin, all inthe bright case which sheathed it around. And there she satdown, and set the case upon her knees, and cried aloud andwept, and took out the bow of her lord. Now when she hadher fill of tearful lament, she set forth to go to the hall to thecompany of the proud wooers, with the back-bent bow in herhands, and the quiver for the arrows, and many shafts weretherein winged for death. And her maidens along with herbare a chest, wherein lay much store of iron and bronze, thegear of combat of their lord. Now when the fair lady hadcome unto the wooers, she stood by the doorpost of the well-builded roof, holding up her glistening tire before her face ; anda faithful maiden stood on either side of her, and straight-. co03OH 1—1 u co W XH OH coPW CO co AO &h oo PQ H KH O I—I P3 03<JO w OhOi-lW W book xxi 24:7 way she spake out among the wooers and declared her word,saying: Hear me, ye lordly wooers, who have vexed this house, thatye might eat and drink here evermore, forasmuch as the masteris long gone, nor could ye find any other mark for your speech,but all your desire was to wed me and take me to wife. Nay,come now, ye wooers, seeing that this is the prize that is putbefore you. I will set forth for you the great bow of divineOdysseus, and whoso shall most easily string the bow in hishands, and shoot through all twelve axes, with him will I goand forsake this house, this house of my wedlock, so fair audfilled with all livelihood, which methinks I shall yet remember,aye, in a dream. So spake she, and commanded Eumaeus, the goodly swine-herd, to set the bow for the wooers and the axes o
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