_Parode_: The Chorus of Satyrs driving their goats and lamenting how
different this from the merry service of Bacchus.
_Episode I_. Silenus hurries back with the news that a ship is
approaching to water in the island: fresh victims for the monster.
_Enter Ulysses and crew_: mutual explanations, all couched in
'burlesque' tone. The mariners have had no food except flesh, and
gladly partake milk and fruits of the Satyrs, affording in return to
Silenus the long-lost luxury of wine: the scene then going on to paint
[with the utmost coarseness] the oncoming of drunkenness.
Suddenly _enter Polyphemus_: Ulysses and the crew hide. After some
rough bandying between the Monster and the Chorus, the strangers are
discovered: and Silenus, to save himself, turns traitor, and tells
Polyphemus how they have beaten him because he would not let them
steal, also what dire woes they were going to work upon Polyphemus. In
spite of their protests Silenus is believed: Ulysses promises, if set
free, to erect shrines in Greece for the Cyclops, besides dwelling upon
the impiety of attacking innocent strangers: Polyphemus replies that he
does not care for shrines, and as for impiety he is independent of
Zeus; which gives occasion for a glorification of the life of nature.
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