Herald.

Tidings, my lords.

Eur. Speak forth.

Her. Be it known the prince Telemachus is come.

[Suitors rise and murmur.

Eur. Shame on you. Silence. Sir, we are much rejoiced To learn the prince’s safety. When arrived he?

Her. He landed yestereve. We brought the ship This morn in harbour.

Eur. Where disbarked the prince?

Her. Northward by Ægilips.

Eur. Is’t known?

Her. My lord, I speed to tell it. [Exit.

Eur. Friends, if this be true, We are baffled.

Ctes. False, ’tis false.

Eur. And nought remains But man a galley, that shall bear the tidings To Lord Antinous and his men, who else Will lie out watching for him in the straits.

Amph. Yet even that pains is spared us. Looking forth I see two ships in harbour side by side, And not far off a company of men, I take to be Antinous and his band.

Ctes. How so?

Amph. See then.

Ctes. O, true: they are at the gate. How hath it happed?

Amph. Prophesy, sir, and tell us Whether some god forewarned Telemachus, Or if they gave him chase and could not catch him.

Enter Antinous and his men.