[Dramatically.]

“Who from great Samson’s brow hath slyly shorn

His strength? Delila, answer to thy scorn.

O Hercules! What woman-shaped chimaera

Gave thee the poisoned cloak? Thy Deianira.

O pate of Socrates! Who from the steepy

Housetop upset the slop-pail? Thy Xantippe!

Yea, speeding her lover through the dark finestra,

Who hath her husband slain, but Clytemnestra!

Thou, too, O Cleopatra—”