XVIII.

From which he leaps into the scooping brine,

That shocks his bosom with a double chill;

Because, all hours, till the slow sun's decline,

That cold divorcer will be 'twixt them still;

Wherefore he likens it to Styx' foul tide,

Where life grows death upon the other side.

XIX.

Then sadly he confronts his twofold toil

Against rude waves and an unwilling mind,