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Said Jupiter, one day, / As on a cloud he lay, / 'Observing all our crimes, / Come, let us change the times, / By leasing out anew / A world whose wicked crew / Have wearied out our grace, / And cursed us to our face. / Hie hellward, Mercury; / A Fury bring to me, / The direst of the three. / Race nursed too tenderly, / This day your doom shall be! ' / E'en while he spoke their fate, / His wrath began to moderate.
O kings, with whom His will / Hath lodged our good and ill, / Your wrath and storm between / One night should intervene!