Let maids whom hot desire to husbands lead,[235]

And rude boys, touched with unknown love, me read:

That some youth hurt, as I am, with Love's bow,

His own flame's best-acquainted signs may know.

And long admiring say, "By what means learned,

Hath this same poet my sad chance discern'd?"10

I durst the great celestial battles tell,

Hundred-hand Gyges, and had done it well;

With Earth's revenge, and how Olympus top

High Ossa bore, Mount Pelion up to prop;