Oh how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunch'd from Grecian docks,
Had never pass'd the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damned business for my Miss Medea, &c. &c.
June 1810.
George Gordon Byron
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/translation-of-the-nurse-s-dole-in-the-medea-of-euripides/
