Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flame

With bisson rheum; a clout about that head,

Where late the diadem stood; and, for a rob

About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,

A blanket in th' alarm of fear caught up.

Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd

'Gainst fortune's state would treason have pronounc'd;

But if the gods themselves did see her then,

When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport

In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,