Who was it caus’d the deadly strife to grow

Betwixt Pelides and his royal foe,

And brought on Greece unutterable woe?

A Woman.

When Agamemnon (through all Greece renown’d)

From Trojan wars returned, with conquest crown’d,

Who caus’d th’ unguarded monarch’s mortal wound?

A Woman.

Who was’t, with witchcraft, and each am’rous wile,

Detain’d Ulysses from his native isle,