among them, sitting next above Ulysses:Ulysses had good reason to give place to Homer, who lied so lustily for his credit. their choirs consist of boys and virgins, which were directed and assisted by Eunomus the Locrian, and Arion the Lesbian,Two excellent musicians. and Anacreon, and Stesichorus,Two famous lyric poets. who hath had a place there ever since his reconcilement with Helena.Stesichorus having much inveighed against Helena in his verses as the cause of all the Trojan war, was struck blind by Castor and Pollux, but upon his recantation recovered his sight. As soon as these have done there enter a second choir of swans, swallows and nightingales; and when they have ended, the whole woods ring like wind-instruments by the stirring of the air.
But that which maketh most for their mirth are two wells adjoining to the banqueting place, the one of laughter, the other of pleasure:Excellent liquor for a feast. of these every man drinks to begin the feast withal, which makes