Invincible, who with his tender hand540

Doth speed his arrows with unerring aim.

[Exit Nurse.]

Deianira [invoking Cupid]: O wingéd boy, by earth and heaven feared,

By creatures of the sea, and him who wields

The bolts in Aetna forged; and dreaded too

By thy relentless mother, queen of love:

Aim with unerring hand thy swiftest dart.

Not harmless be the shaft, but choose, I pray545

One of thy keenest arrows, which thy hand