“The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.”
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Source: Metamorphoses
Source: Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale, from Chaucer (bk. I-III) To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chesterton. Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cinyras and Myrrha, out of th