Medea was a termagant,—what then?
Was not Penelope a noble creature?
If one should say, "Just think of Clytæmnestra,"
I meet him with Alcestis chaste and true.
Perhaps he'll turn and say no good of Phædra;
But think of virtuous . . . who? . . . Alas, alas!
I cannot recollect another good one,
Though I could still count bad ones up by scores.
FOLLY OF MARRYING.
And Aristophon, in his Callonides, says—