Or seven, though one should musing sit.

If any of these, or all, the Timnian bride

Had not so soon preferred

Thy paranymph, worthless to thee compared, 1020

Successor in thy bed,

Nor both so loosely disallied

Their nuptials, nor this last so treacherously

Had shorn the fatal harvest of thy head.

Is it for that such outward ornament 1025

Was lavished on their sex, that inward gifts