O to what horrible and wretched torment!
Are three innocent people going to be delivered?
Poison suggestion, badly guarded, betrayal.
Delivered up to horror by drunken executioners.
INCANTATION OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS Let those who read this verse consider it profoundly, Let the profane and the ignorant herd keep away: And far away all Astrologers, Idiots and Barbarians, May he who does otherwise be subject to the sacred rite.