Classic Poem

From her bed's high and odoriferous roome,
Helen. To whom (of an elaborate loome)
Adresta set a chaire; Alcippe brought
A peece of Tapestrie, of fine wooll wrought;
Phylo a silver Cabinet conferd
(Given by Alcandra, Nuptially endeard
To Lord Polybius, whose abode in Thebes,
The'aegyptian citie, was, where wealth in heapes
His famous house held, out of which did go
In gift t'Atrides silver bath-tubs two,
Two Tripods, and of fine gold talents ten).
His wife did likewise send to Helen then
Faire gifts, a Distaffe that of gold was wrought,
And that rich Cabinet that Phylo brought,
Round and with gold ribd, now of fine thred full,
On which extended (crownd with finest wooll
Of violet glosse) the golden Distaffe lay.