Eclogue 8

"ALPHEUS: Bring water foorth, and bind with filets soft there altars round Burne vervine fat and full of juice, and frankincense the best, That I may try to turne away the right wits of my husband With sacrifices magical! of witchcraft and inchantment. Nothing is wanting now but charms which woonders great do worke O you my charms bring Daphnis from the town, bring Daphnis home. Charms able are from heaven high to fetch the moone adowne, With charms did Circe turne and change Ulisses fellowes shapes With charming is the snake so cold in medowes burst to peeces: O you my charms bring Daphnis from the town, bring Daphnis home. I twist for thee even first of all these threeds in number three, In colour threefold differing, and thrise about these altars I draw thy lively counterfet: God joies in number od: O you my charms bring Daphnis from the town, bring Daphnis home."