Canto

 1     4|     sires who such outrageous statute penned,~And king, who might,
 2     8|      crew~The savage, ancient statute, which decreed~That woman'
 3    20|       course~Adopted; and the statute put in force.~ ~ XXVIII~"
 4    20|    sway,~It is enacted by the statute fell,~Each mother should
 5    20|      temper but in this their statute's pain,~That, not as was
 6    20|    XLIV~" `Ah! were the cruel statute less severe~Against the
 7    37| revenge Marphisa takes: a new~Statute that maid does in the town
 8    37|   many slain in cruel sort.~A statute for his town next made the
 9    37|     errors past,~Repealed the statute Marganor had made,~And a
10    37| advised to the sway~And cruel statute of that tyrant stern;~But
11    37|        And, save she find her statute in effect,~That borough