The Evil of Impious Words

i have seen two sacred trees a lime tree and an oak so closely grown their branches interlace. I saw the spot for pithius there had sent me to attend his father's court nearby those trees are stagnant pools and fens where koots and coremarants delight to haunt but it was not so always long ago twas visited by mighty jupiter together with his nimble witted son who first had laid aside his rod and wings. Of a thousand houses all the doors were bolted and no word of kindness given so wicked were the people of that land at last by chance they stopped at a small house whose humble roof was thatched with reads and straw. A kind old couple greeted