Mycene-fancy fraught, Lusts fond alarmes,

Cros’d eye-stard’d Sparta, rapt with Phrigian charmes:

And teare-rent Sophyre, Synon-like betrayd

What votall oathes, loves sterne fort, ne’er bewrayd

But high-bred drifts, the stormy fates, grim night

And gloomy Hellespont, rob’d Heroes right:

As Illions destiny, forc’d Numidias Queene

To gore a Scepter, a Diadem in teene:

So haplesse I belov’d, O passion strange!

May as amaz’d, admire, that time, this change.