Here lives the man, that never yet did hear

Of chaste Penelope, Ulysses's Queen?

Who kept her faith unspotted twenty year;

Till he returned, that far away had been,

And many men and many towns had seen:

Ten year at Siege of Troy, he ling'ring lay;

And ten year in the midland sea did stray.

2.

Homer, to whom the Muses did carouse