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‘The daughter of Thoas, Hypsipylê, sent me hither away

To summon the lord of your ship, and the captain of your array,

That the will of her folk she may tell him, their heart’s desire this day.

Yea, and his fellows she biddeth to light in friendship down

On our shore, if they will, and to enter undismayed our town.’

So spake she, and fair in the sight of them all was the word that she said;

For they deemed that Hypsipylê reigned in the room of Thoas dead,

His daughter, his well-beloved; and they hasted Jason to meet

The island-queen, and they dight them to follow their captain’s feet.{720}

Then he flung o’er his shoulders the web by the Goddess Itonian wrought;

In the clasp of a brooch were the folds of the purple of Pallas caught,

Which she gave, when for Argo’s building the keel-props first she dight,

And taught him with rule of the shipwright to measure her timbers aright.

More easy it were in sooth on the sun at his rising to gaze

Than to fasten thine eyes on the flush of its glory, its splendour-blaze.