IF there's a tale more common than the rest,

The one I mean to give is such confessed.

Why choose it then? you ask; at whose desire?

Hast not enough already tuned thy lyre?

What favour can thy MATRON now expect,

Since novelty thou clearly dost neglect?

Besides, thou'lt doubtless raise the critick's rage.

See if it looks more modern in my page.

AT Ephesus, in former times, once shone,

A fair, whose charms would dignify a throne;