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Updated: August 9, 2024
And both their windows being open, and only a thin partition between the chambers, Amyas's admiring ears came in for every word of the following canzonet, sung in that delicate and mellow tenor voice for which Frank was famed among all fair ladies: "Ah, tyrant Love, Megaera's serpents bearing, Why thus requite my sighs with venom'd smart?
'No! said Pelagia, looking up. 'No love-potions! No poisons! 'Poisons, little fool! Do you doubt the old woman's skill? Do you think I shall make him lose his wits, as Callisphyra did to her lover last year, because she would trust to old Megaera's drugs, instead of coming to me! 'No! No drugs; no magic! He must love me really, or not at all!
A gentler doom dread Minos passed, While down his cheeks the tears coursed fast And e'en around Megaera's face The serpents twined in fond embrace, The lashes' work seemed done. Driven by Orpheus' lyre away, The vulture left his giant-prey ; With gentler motion rolled along Dark Lethe and Cocytus' river, Enraptured Thracian, by thy song, And love its burden was forever!
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