ARIADNE.
“Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lover’s perjury.”
—Dryden.
THE Minotaur, a horrid beast
Which made its food of maidens fair
And handsome youths, to say the least
Had given Athens quite a scare.
Since Athens sent each year to Crete
A batch of folks for him to eat;
’Till on King Minos Athens soured,