Metin
Imagine there you hear Charybdis roar.Servius tells us she was a gluttonous woman, who having stolen Hercules' oxen, was thunderstruck by Jupiter and thrown headlong into the sea, where she keeps still her natural disposition of devouring all things. This rock lies over against Zanclea in Sicily, at the entrance of the straits of Messina, from whence she is called Zanclaea. Strabo writes the rock is prodigiously hollow.
But chance itself sometimes may stand your friend,
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And give your griefs an unexpected end.
Had Phaedra's wealth to poverty declin'd.
She never for Hippolitus had pin'd.
Or were Medea born a rural maid,
No faithless Jason had implor'd her aid.
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But love in pamper'd palaces is bred,
By pleasure and luxurious riches fed.
Not Hecale or Irus could arriveHecale was a poor old woman who entertained Theseus at her cottage in one of his enterprises; and Irus one of Penelope's suitors, who being extremely poor, was almost starved, and so weak that Ulysses knocked him on the head with his fist. Irus's poverty occasioned the proverb Iro pauperior. He iks also spoken of in the epistle from Penelope to Ulysses (Ep. 1.95).
At Hymen's joys, though long they did survive,
For both were poor: and Cupid still shoots high,
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His shafts above the humble cottage fly.
Yet so severe a cure I can't approve,
Or bid you starve yourself, to starve your love.
But ne'er frequent the wanton theatre,
Where vain desires in all their pomp appear;
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From music, dancing, and an am'rous part,Meaning that of the Mimes, where the postures were very much debauched, and the sight of them dangerous to manners.
Perform'd to th' life, how can you guard your heart?
Against myself I frank confession make;
