Improv’d by favour of the ninefold train.
The buskin’d Muse, the Comic Queen, the grand
And louder tone of Clio; nimble hand,
And nimbler foot of the melodious pair,
The silver voiced Lady; the most fair
Calliope, whose speaking silence daunts,
And she whose praise the heavenly body chants.
These jointly woo’d him, envying one another
(Obey’d by all as spouse, but lov’d as brother),
And wrought a curious robe of sable grave,