Shooting a soul into her, and new breath,

Maugre those tongues that doomèd her to death—

Echo forth thanks unto coy Daphne's lover

(About whose fane the sacred Nine do hover)

Whose kindness smiled on my uncrushed designs;

And locked a muse in my unworthy lines,

30Able to blunt the darts of envy, pare

The sharpest-hoofèd satyr, and with air

Shrill as the voice of thunder, chide those galls

That belch forth scandals and invective bawls.