ABSTRACT
Hecuba, being with child of Paris, dreamed she was delivered of a firebrand: Priam, consulting the Prophets, was answered the child should be the destruction of Troy, wherefore Priam commanded it should be delivered to wild beasts as soon as born; but Hecuba conveys it secretly to Mount Ida, there to be fostered by the shepherds, where he falls in love with the nymph Œnone, but at last being known and owned, he sails into Greece, and carries Helen to Troy, which CEnone understanding, writes him this epistle.
