t be compared to him for beauty.

Long time Kephalos abode in the house of Erechtheus, and, each day, he
loved more and more the bright and happy Prokris; and Prokris became
brighter and happier, as the eye of Kephalos rested gently and
lovingly upon her. At last Kephalos told her of his love, and
Erechtheus gave him his child to be his wife, and there were none in
all the land who dwelt together in a love so deep and pure as that of
Kephalos and Prokris.

But among the maidens of that land there was one who was named Eos.
She, too, was fair and beautiful, but she had not the gentle spirit
and the guileless heart of Prokris. Whenever Kephalos wandered forth
with his young wife, then Eos would seek to follow them stealthily,
or, if she met them by chance, she would suffer her eyes to rest long
on the fair face of Kephalos, till she began to envy the happiness of
Prokris. And so one day, when there was a feast of the people of the
land, and the maidens danced on the soft grass around the fountain,
Kephalos and Eos talked together, and Eos suffered herself to be
carried away by her evil love. From that day she sought more and more
to talk with Kephalos, till at last she bowed her head before him and
told him softly of her love. But Kephalos said to her, gently,
"Maiden, thou art fair to look upon, and there are others who may love
thee well, and thou deservest the love of any. But I may not leave
Prokris, whom Erechtheus has given to me to be my wife. Forgive me,
maiden, if Prokris appear to me even fairer than thou art; but I prize
her gentleness more than her beauty, and Prokris, with her pure love
and guileless heart, shall be always dearer to me than any other in
all the wide earth." Then Eos answered him craftily, "O Kephalos, thou
hast suffered thyself to be deceived. Prokris loves thee not as I do;
prove her love and thou shalt see that I have spoken truly."

Thus Eos spoke to him for many days, and the great happiness of his
life was marred, for the words of Eos would come back to his mind, as
he looked on the happy and guileless Prokris. He had begun to doubt
whether she were in very deed so pure and good as she seemed to be,
and at last he said to Eos that he would prove her love. Then Eos told
him how to do so, and said that if he came before his wife as a
stranger and brought to her rich gifts, as from a distant land, she
would forget her love for Kephalos.

With a heavy heart he went away, for he foreboded