"Better part friends, that follow fiends to hell!"

Ismenio, with Vitullia went together,

Perhaps both wounded with blind Cupid's dart;

Yet durst they not relate their love to either,

Love if once pitied, pierceth to the heart:

But, sure, Vitullia is so fair a mark,

Cupid would court her, though but by the dark.

Artesia, she must go, the more She's grieved,

To churlish Strymon, her adopted Mate;