To sate thy wrath? A mortal woman's hate

Has far excelled thine own. 'Twas late thy shame,1190

To feel thyself by Hercules alone

Outmatched; but now must thou confess thyself

By two o'ercome. Shame on such heavenly wrath!

Oh, that the Nemean lion of my blood

Had drunk his fill, and Oh, that I had fed

The hydra with his hundred snaky heads

Upon my gore! Oh, that the centaurs fierce1195

Had made a prey of me; or 'midst the shades