You will not have vulgar gifts or easily found pleasures,
such as leverets, or does, or kids,
or paired doves, or a nest from the tree-tops.
I came upon twin cubs of a shaggy bear
that you can play with: so alike you can hardly separate them.
I came upon them and I said: "I shall keep these for my mistress."
Now Galatea, only lift your shining head from the dark blue sea:
come, do not scorn my gifts. Lately, I examined myself,
it's true, and looked at my reflection in the clear water,
and, seeing my self, it pleased me.
Look how large I am: Jupiter, in the sky, since you are accustomed
to saying some Jove or other rules there, has no bigger a body.
Luxuriant hair hangs over my face, and shades my shoulders
like a grove. And do not consider it ugly
for my whole body to be bristling with thick prickly hair.
A tree is ugly without its leaves: a horse is ugly unless
a golden mane covers its neck: feathers
hide the birds: their wool becomes the sheep:
a beard and shaggy hair befits a man's body.
I only have one eye in the middle of my forehead,
but it is as big as a large shield.
Well? Does great Sol not see all this from the sky?
Yet Sol's orb is unique. Added to that my father, Neptune,
rules over your waters: I give you him as a father-in-law.
Only have pity, and listen to my humble prayers!
I, who scorn Jove and his heaven and his piercing lightning-bolt,
submit to you alone: I fear you, Nereid: your anger
is fiercer than lightning. And I could bear this contempt of yours
more patiently, if you fled from everyone.
But why, rejecting Cyclops, love Acis, and prefer Acis's embrace to mine?
Though he is pleased with himself, and, what I dislike,
pleases you too, Galatea, let me just have a chance at him.
Then he will know I am as strong as I am big! I'll tear
out his entrails while he lives, rend his limbs
and scatter them over the fields, and over your ocean,
(so he can join you!) For I am on fire,
and, wounded, I burn with a fiercer flame,
and I seem to bear Aetna with all his violent powers
sunk in my breast, yet you, Galatea, are unmoved.'

Note 1: I = Polyphemus

Event: Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea