The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ouidius Naso, In Englishe Verse set out and translated by George Turberuile ... with Aulus Sabinus Aunsweres to certaine of the same |
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The Argument of the fourth Epistle, entituled Phædra to Hippolytus.
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 | The Heroycall Epistles of the Learned Poet Publius Ouidius Naso, In Englishe Verse |  |
The Argument of the fourth Epistle, entituled Phædra to Hippolytus.
The frantick Phædra, Theseus wedded Make,In absence of the Duke hir husband fell
In loue with Hippolyte, and did forsake
The worthie wight that looude his wife so well.
But he delighted with Diana more
Than crancking Cupid, or Dame Venus play:
Aye kept the chase, and slue the sauage Bore,
Not forcing what his Motherlaw did say.
She naythelesse attatch with glowing gleede,
To winne the chastfull youth to filthie lust:
In subtile sort his humors sought to feede,
Perswading him hir sute to be but iust.
With sundrie sleightes she went about to winne
The retchlesse youth, that minded nothing lesse
Than shamefull lust and filthie fleshly sinne.
The Mothers minde this Pistle doth expresse,
These suing lynes hir sluttish sute bewray,
Wherein to Hippolyte thus gan she say.
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