For now I will bind him with these love charms; but if he goes on hurting me, by the Fates, he will be knocking at the gate of Hades. Such deadly drugs I keep for him in a box, I tell you, lady, which I learned from an Assyrian stranger. But you, farewell, lady: turn your horses toward Ocean. I will bear my burden as I have borne it. Farewell, shining Moon, and farewell, you other stars that follow the chariot of quiet Night.

The end, as Cholmeley reads it. She will try the love charms once more; if Delphis keeps hurting her, he will knock at the gate of Hades. The line answers line 6, where he had not even knocked at her door. She keeps deadly drugs in a box, learned from an Assyrian stranger. Then she lets the Moon go: "I will bear my burden as I have borne it." Cholmeley calls the close a calm despair, set against "the pitiless calm of nature," the Moon and the stars that follow the chariot of quiet Night. Two manuscripts read πόθον, "my longing," for πόνον, "my burden"; his addenda say they may be right.