Lamia: Lycius

Question 1

‘Blinded…

Answer 1

Lycius’

Question 2

‘a youth of…

Answer 2

Corinth,’

Question 3

‘She saw the young…

Answer 3

Corinthian Lycius.’

Question 4

Like a young Jove with…

Answer 4

calm uneager face, And fell into a swooning love of him.’

Question 5

‘Lycius, look back! and be some pity shown,’
He did - not with cold wonder fearingly,’

Question 6

‘His eyes had drunk her beauty up;
Leaving no drop in the bewildering cup
And…

Answer 6

still the cup was full - while he, afraid
Lest she should vanish ere his lip had paid.’

Question 7

‘Even as thou vanishest so I shall die.’

Answer 7

• Foreshadowing

Question 8

that if thou shouldst fade
Thy memory will waste me to a shade

Question 9

‘He, sick to lose The amorous promise of her lone complain, Swooned, murmuring of love, and pale with pain.’

Question 10

‘To hear her whisper woman’s lore so well;
And every word she spake enticed him on To unperplexed delight and pleasure known.’

Question 11

‘They passed the city gates, he knew not how, So noiseless, and he never thought to know.’

Question 12

‘Had Lycius lived to hand his story down, He might have given the moral a fresh frown,’

Question 13

Deafening the swallow’s twitter, came…

Answer 13

a thrill Of trumpets - Lycius started - the sounds fled,’

Question 14

‘Lycius! wherefore did you blind Yourself from his quick eyes?’

Question 15

‘How to entangle, trammel up and snare Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there.’

Question 16

What mortal hath a prize, that other men
May be confounded and abashed withal,

Question 17

But lets it sometimes pace abroad majestical,
And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice

Question 18

Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth’s voice.
Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,

Question 19

‘Besides, for all his love, in self-despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious in her sorrows, soft and new.

Question 20

‘His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue’

Question 21

Lycius, perplexed at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,

Question 22

‘O senseless Lycius! Madman!’

Question 23

‘Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou ruthless man! Turn them aside, wretch! or the righteous ban Of all the Gods, whose dreadful images.’

Question 24

‘Lycius arms were empty of delight,
As were his limbs of life,’

Question 25

‘No pulse, or breath they found, And, in its marriage robe, the heavy body wound.’