Rise Oedipeus, and, if thou canst, unfould

What meanes Caribdis underneath the mould,

When Scilla sollitary on the ground

(Sitting in forme of Niobe) was found,

Till Amphitrites Darling did acquaint

Grim Neptune with the Tenor of her plaint,

And causd him send forth Triton with the sound

Of Trumpet lowd, at which the Seas were found

So full of Protean formes that the bold shore

Presented Scilla a new parramore

So stronge as Sampson and so patient

As Job himselfe, directed thus, by fate,

To comfort Scilla so unfortunate.

I doe professe, by Cupids beautious mother,

Heres Scogans choise for Scilla, and none other;

Though Scilla’s sick with greife, because no signe

Can there be found of vertue masculine.

Esculapius come; I know right well

His laboure’s lost when you may ring her Knell.

The fatall sisters doome none can withstand,

nor Cithareas powre, who poynts to land

With proclamation that the first of May

At Ma-re Mount shall be kept hollyday.