" `Tis only I, on earth, in air, or sea, Who suffer at thy hands such cruel pain;
And this thou hast ordained, that I may be The first and last example in thy reign.
Foully did Ninus' wife and impiously For her own son a passion entertain;
Loved was Pasiphae's bull and Myrrha's sire;
But mine is madder than their worst desire.