Unworthy loves to rage do quickly change). 
    It kill’d her too; perhaps in just revenge
    Of wrong’d Theseus, slain Hippolytus,
    And poor forsaken Ariadne:  thus
    It often proves that they who falsely blame
    Another, in one breath themselves condemn: 
    And who have guilty been of treachery,
    Need not complain, if they deceived be. 
    Behold the brave hero a captive made
    With all his fame, and twixt these sisters led: 
    Who, as he joy’d the death of th’ one to see,
    His death did ease the other’s misery. 
    The next that followeth, though the world admire
    His strength, Love bound him.  Th’ other full of ire
    Is great Achilles, he whose pitied fate
    Was caused by Love.  Demophoon did not hate
    Impatient Phyllis, yet procured her death. 
    This Jason is, he whom Medea hath
    Obliged by mischief; she to her father proved
    False, to her brother cruel; t’ him she loved
    Grew furious, by her merit over-prized. 
    Hypsipyle comes next, mournful, despised,
    Wounded to see a stranger’s love prevail
    More than her own, a Greek.  Here is the frail
    Fair Helena, with her the shepherd boy,
    Whose gazing looks hurt Greece, and ruin’d Troy. 
    ’Mongst other weeping souls, you hear the moan
    Oenone makes, her Paris being gone;
    And Menelaus, for the woe he had
    To lose his wife.  Hermione is sad,
    And calls her dear Orestes to her aid. 
    And Laodamia, that hapless maid,
    Bewails Protesilaus.  Argia proved
    To Polynice more faithful than the loved
    (But false and covetous) Amphiaraus’ wife. 
    The groans and sighs of those who lose their life
    By this kind lord, in unrelenting flames
    You hear:  I cannot tell you half their names. 
    For they appear not only men that love,
    The gods themselves do fill this myrtle grove: 
    You see fair Venus caught by Vulcan’s art
    With angry Mars; Proserpina apart
    From Pluto, jealous Juno, yellow-hair’d
    Apollo, who the young god’s courage dared: 
    And of his trophies proud, laugh’d at the bow
    Which in Thessalia gave him such a blow. 
    What shall I say?—­here, in a word, are all
    The gods that Varro mentions, great and small;
    Each with innumerable bonds detain’d,
    And Jupiter before the chariot chain’d.”

    ANNA HUME.

PART II.

Stanci gia di mirar, non sazio ancora.

      Wearied, not satisfied, with much delight,
    Now here, now there, I turn’d my greedy sight,
    And many things I view’d:  to write were long,
    The time is short, great store of passions throng
    Within my breast; when lo, a lovely pair,
    Join’d hand in hand, who kindly talking were,
    Drew my attention that way: