— The period so prefixt o'erpast by one,

  By two, three, six, by eight, by twenty days —

  She seeing not her spouse, and tidings none

  Receiving of the youth, laments 'gan raise,

  Which had from snake-haired Furies pity won,

  In those dark realms that Rhadamanthus sways.

  She smote her eyes divine, and bosoms fair;

  She rent the tresses of her golden hair.