l around it. Ile heard his mother's voice and it was raised in
lament: "Walled up here and given over to hunger I shall be made go to
Polydectes's house and become his wife. O ye godshave ye no pity for
Danaethe mother of Perseus?"
Perseus cried aloudand his mother heard his voice and her moans
ceased. He turned around and he went to the palace of Polydectesthe
king.
The king received him with mockeries. "I will let you stay in Seriphus
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for a day he said
because I would have you at a marriage feast. I have
vowed that Danaetaken from the temple where she sulkswill be my wife
by to-morrow's sunset."
So Polydectes saidand the lords and princes who were around him
mocked at Perseus and flattered the king. Perseus went from them then.
The next day he came back to the palace. But in his hands now there was a
dread thing--the bag made from the hide of the sea monster that had in it
the Gorgon's head.
He saw his mother. She was brought in white and faintingthinking
that she would now have to wed the harsh and overbearing king. Then she
saw her sonand hope came into her face.
The king seeing Perseussaid: "Step forwa
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