Thyself didst say, woe there prevaileth.

But for this tide enough hath been

Of bloody work. My score is clean.

Now to the ancient stern Alastor,

That crowns the Pleisthenids[f31] with disaster,

I vow, having reaped his crop of woe

From me, to others let him go,

And hold with them his bloody bridal,

Of horrid murders suicidal!

Myself, my little store amassed