Elysium.--Adieu. Continue to esteem and love each other, as you did in
the other world, though you were of opposite parties, and, what is still
more wonderful, rival wits. This alone is sufficient to entitle you both
to Elysium.



DIALOGUE V.


ULYSSES--CIRCE.--IN CIRCE'S ISLAND.

_Circe_.--You will go then, Ulysses, but tell me, without reserve, what
carries you from me?

_Ulysses_.--Pardon, goddess, the weakness of human nature. My heart will
sigh for my country. It is an attachment which all my admiration of you
cannot entirely overcome.

_Circe_.--This is not all. I perceive you are afraid to declare your
whole mind. But what, Ulysses, do you fear? My terrors are gone. The
proudest goddess on earth, when she has favoured a mortal as I have
favoured you, has laid her divinity and power at his feet.

_Ulysses_.--It may be so while there still remains in her heart the
tenderness of love, or in her mind the fear of shame. But you, Circe,
are above those vulgar sensations.

_Circe_.--I understand your caution; it belongs to your character, and
therefore, to remove all diffidence from you, I swear by Styx I will do