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1When scorned
Medea1
saw Creusa led2A bride to her ungrateful spouse’s bed,
3She vowed revenge, hid underneath a smile
4Which did the
royal virgin2
so beguile5That
she3
received of her4
the robe and crown6And, overjoyed, put on the
Napthian gown5
;7But, putting holy incense in the fire,
8The palace soon became her funeral pyre.
9Then fierce Medea with
her dragons6
flew,10
Killing her children in their father’s view.7
11O, horrid! She (even she) that gave them birth
12Stabbed those sweet boys, then flung them to the earth.
13Her mad impiety did rise thus far
14To dare the gods to do as much by her.
15Poor
Ariadne8
did not so when she16Fair Phaedra in false Jason’s arms did see;
17When she forsaken was on Naxos’s shore,
18The pity of the gods she did implore.
19Then
Liber Pater9
took her for his spouse;20With nine
refulgent10
orbs he crowned her brows.21So, though afflictions doth thy soul surround,
22Yet trust in God thy patience will be
crowned11
.23Then let this
flaming fabric12
warn all those24That injure others not to trust their foes:
25But O, my enemies within me be
26Then from
my self13
, dear God, deliver me.