Scorn not the words we say to thee.”

One awful demon, fiery-eyed,

Stood by the Maithil queen and cried:

'Come and be his, if thou art wise,

Who smote the sovereign of the skies,

And made the thirty Gods and three,[839]

O'ercome in furious battle, flee.

Thy lover turns away with scorn

From wives whom grace and youth adorn.

Thou art his chosen consort, thou