The stepdame was more excellent in beauty then honesty: for she loved this young man her sonne in law, either because she was unchast by nature, or because she was enforced by fate of stepmother, to commit so great a mischiefe.
His cruell stepdame seeing what was donne, 2 Her wicked dayes with wretched knife did end, In death auowing th'innocence of her sonne.
Nature turns stepdame to her brood, and dams Deny their monstrous issue.
A stepdame too I have, a cursed she, Who rules my hen-peck'd sire, and orders me.
I heard their names, and I remember well The youthful Greek that by his stepdame fell, And him who, kept by Heaven's command in awe, Refused to violate the nuptial law.
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