any one couldderive so much absolute happiness from these

What joy, what happiness! If what you tell me is true, I long to

CARIO (singing, with appropriate gestures)

And I too, threttanelo! want to imitate the Cyclops and lead

your troop by stamping like this. Do you, my dear little ones, cry,

aye, cry again and bleat forth the plaintive song of the sheep and

of the stinking goats; follow me like lascivious goats with their

(Singing, to the same tune and with similar mimicry)

As for us, threttanelo! we will seek you, dear Cyclops,