a courtesy down to the ground, and likewise
bade him welcome; so did her sister with the
bodice of oaken bark, and she that sprinkled dew-
drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth one
with some oddity which I cannot remember.
And Circe, as the beautiful enchantress was
called, (who had deluded so many persons that
she did not doubt of being able to delude Ulys-
ses, not imagining how wise he was,) again
addressed him: --

"Your companions," said she, "have already
been received into my palace, and have enjoyed
the hospitable treatment to which the propriety
of their behavior so well entitles them. If such
be your pleasure, you shall first take some refresh-
ment, and then join them in the elegant apart-
ment which they now occupy. See, I and my
maidens have been weaving their figures into
this piece of tapestry."

She pointed to the web of beautifully-woven
cloth in the loom. Circe and the four nymphs
must have been very diligently at work since the
arrival of the mariners; for a great many yards
of tapestry had now been wrought, in addition
to what I before described. In this new part,

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