You were a young adult then, just beginning to make your own way in the world, and you stepped forth and risked an answer: the human being, you said. You solved the riddle, the spell was broken, and in gratitude the city made you its ruler. So now the spokesman says, “Do it for us again.” [In the play, he puts it more cunningly: “Never be it our memory of thy reign that we were first restored and afterward cast down by you.”] They are asking you to keep on being the one you have always been—to live up to your public image. They ask you not to change now. And that is where the dream ends, but
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