EURIPIDES.

Unconquerable and inviolate

Is Love; servant and sov’ reign of man’ s wit:

Though the light-wingèd fancy changeful flit,

She rules unswervingly her fair estate,

O’ erbears mischance and error, envy and hate;

High intellect, ambition, passion, pride,

Endowments that capricious Fortune brings,

By her disfranchisements are set aside;

The mistress she alike of slaves and kings,

Empress of Earth’ s dominions, far and wide,

Eldest of potentates, and latest born.

Of all in Heaven above or Earth below,

No being so illustrious or forlorn,

That to Love’ s sceptre doth not gladly bow.