AGAVE
More shining than before, more heavenly bright!

CADMUS
And that wild tremour, is it with thee still?

AGAVE (_troubled_)
I know not what thou sayest; but my will
Clears, and some change cometh, I know not how.

CADMUS
Canst hearken then, being changed, and answer, now!

AGAVE
I have forgotten something; else I could.

CADMUS
What husband led thee of old from mine abode?

AGAVE
Echion, whom men named the Child of Earth.

CADMUS
And what child in Echion's house had birth?

AGAVE
Pentheus, of my love and his father's bred.

CADMUS