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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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74. Concerning Hercules. To C. D.

No Monster could Alcides hurt; yet Love,
Trampled upon him; and sate Queen above.
A Lion could not; a Lass made him yeeld:
Not Beasts with Four, but Two Legs, won the field.