That all who saw fell doting on her; but

Herself so icy-cruel, that her heart

Froze dead all those her eyes had set on fire.

Whom the just God who walk’d that early world,

By right-revenging metamorphosis

Changed to a thing so abject-amorous,

She grovels on the ground to catch at any

Wither’d old trunk or sapling, in her way:

So little loved as loathed, for strangling those

Whom once her deadly-deathless arms enclose.