Description of the Iron Age, from Bk. 1 of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES; translated by George Sandys

All liue by spoyle. The Host his Guest betrayes; 
Sons, Fathers-in-lawe: ’twixt Brethren loue decayes. 
Wiues husbands, Husbands wiues attempt to kill: 
And cruell Step-mothers pale poysons fill. 
The Sonne his Fathers hastie death desires: 
Foild Pietie, trod vnderfoot, expires.