The moon and stars down from the sky,

Ease-loving Naples’ vows, was by;

And every hamlet round about

Declares she was, beyond a doubt.

Now forth the fierce Canidia sprang,

And still she gnawed with rotten fang

Her long sharp unpared thumb-nail. What

Then said she? Yea, what said she not?

“O Night and Dian, who with true

And friendly eyes my purpose view,