Nicias, there is no other remedy for Love,
With ointing, or with sprinkling on, that ever I could prove,
Beside the Muses nine! This pleasant medicine of the mind
Grows among men; and seems but light, yet very hard to find:
As well I wote you know; who are in physic such a Leech,
And of the Muses so beloved. The cause of this my speech
A Cyclops is, who lived here with us right wealthily;
That ancient Polyphem, when first he loved Galate
(When, with a bristled beard, his chin and cheeks first clothed were):