Of strains ever changing in manifold wise. The praises of Zeus they chanted; + 

Then sang they of Thetis and Peleus, and how Hippolyte, wanton child + 

Of Kretheus, fain would have trapped his feet in the treachery-net that she planted; + 

And her husband, the lord of the Magnete folk, by a tale of lies she beguiled, + 

And by counsel of subtlety wrought upon him to share in her own dark plot; + 

For a slanderous tale of her heart’s devising, a web of deceit she wrought, + 

How that Peleus had shamed her, Akastus’ queen, and his bed’s defilement sought. + 