My bow, my quiver, my artillery;

Chloe has beaten me quite out of th' field,

And leads me in captivity.

Great Venus! thou that know'st what I have been,

10How able, and how true a friend to smocks!

Revenge my quarrel on th' imperious quean,

And pay her with a pox!


Book IV. Ode I. To Venus.

No more of War:—Dread Cytherea, cease;