Me may an equal bond

Bind with my equal: never may the eye

Of a celestial suitor fix the gaze

Of forceful love on me.

This were against all odds of war to war,

And in such strife entangled I were lost;

For how should humble maid resist the embrace,

Against great Jove’s decree?

Prometheus.

Nay, but this Jove, though insolent now, shall soon