He quelled one incipient mutiny through sheer dominance, but it left him more short of temper, more crabbedly moody than ever.

Pity it were that love should not be linkèd with indifferency.[209] Then follow Colin's funeral, the punishment of the hard-hearted Thestylis, condemned to love a 'foul crooked churl' who 'crabbedly refuseth her,' and the scene in which Mercury summons Paris before the Olympian tribunal.