XII.
“Yet lower down, harsh Anaxareté[4]
“Suffers worse pain where thicker fumes arise;
“Heaven changed her flesh to stone, and here to be
“Tormented, her afflicted spirit sties:
“In that unmoved she, hung in air, could see
“A lover vext by her barbarities.
“Here Daphne learns how rashly she had done
“In having given Apollo such a run.”
XIII.
“Of hosts of ingrate women in this cell
“Confined, it would be tedious to recite,
“If, one by one, I upon these should dwell;
“So many, their amount is infinite.
“’Twould be more tedious of the men to tell,
“Whose base ingratitude due pains requite;
“And whom, in a more dismal prison pent,
“Smoke blinds, and everlasting fires torment.
XIV.
“Since to belief soft woman is more prone,
“He that deceives her, merits heavier pain;
“To Theseus and to Jason this is known,
“And him that vexed of old the Latian reign[5],
“And him that of his brother Absalon
“Erewhile provoked the pestilent disdain,
“Because of Thamar ; countless is the horde
“Of those who left a wife or wedded lord.
