To all that yet remember well
What secrets Isis had to tell,
How lazy Cherwell loiter'd slow
Sweet aisles of blossom'd May below -
Whate'er befall, whate'er befell,
To ALL old Friends. 

BOOK I--THE COMING OF PARIS 

Of the coming of Paris to the house of Menelaus, King of Lacedaemon,
and of the tale Paris told concerning his past life. 

I. 

All day within the palace of the King
In Lacedaemon, was there revelry,
Since Menelaus with the dawn did spring
Forth from his carven couch, and, climbing high
The tower of outlook, gazed along the dry