Still seems her cruel fortune to bemoan:

Argos, whose monarch led the Grecian hosts

Across th’ Ægean main to Dardan coasts:

Unhappy prince! who, on a hostile shore,

Fatigue, and danger, ten long winters bore;

And when to native realms restored at last

To reap the harvest of thy labours past,

There found a perjured friend, and faithless wife,

Who sacrificed to impious lust thy life:

Fast by Arcadia stretch these desert plains,