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At plays you ogle, at the ring you bow;
Ev'n churches are no fanctuaries now;
There golden idols all your vows receive;
She is no goddefs who has nought to give.
Oh may once more the happy age appear,

When words were artlefs, and the thoughts fincere;
When gold and grandeur were unenvy'd things,
And courts lefs coveted than groves and fprings.
Love then fhall only mourn when Truth complains,
And conftancy feel tranfport in its chains;
Sighs with fuccefs their own foft anguish tell,
And eyes shall utter what the lips conceal:
Virtue again to its bright station climb,
And beauty fear no enemy but time:
The fair fhall liften to defert alone,

And every

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OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

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XIV.

THE,

TRANSFORMATION OF SCYLLA.

Now

OW Glaucus, with a lover's hafte, bounds o'er The fwelling waves, and feeks the Latian fhore. Meffena, Rhegium, and the barren coaft

Of flaming Etna, to his fight are loft:

At length he gains the Tyrrhene feas, and views
The hills where baneful philtres Circe brews;
Monsters in various forms around her press;
As thus the God falutes the Sorceress :

O Circe, be indulgent to my grief,

And give a love-fick deity relief.

Too well the mighty power of plants I know,
To those my figure and new fate I owe.
Against Meffena, on th' Aufonian coaft,
I Scylla view'd, and from that hour was loft.
In tendereft founds I fued; but ftill the fair
Was deaf to vows, and pitilefs to prayer.
If numbers can avail, exert their power;
Or energy of plants, if plants have more.

I ask no cure; let but the virgin pine

With dying pangs, or agonies, like mine.

No longer Circe could her flame disguise, But to the fuppliant God Marine, replies:

When maids are coy, have manlier aims in view;
Leave thofe that fly; but thofe that like, pursue.
If love can be by kind compliance won;
See, at your feet, the Daughter of the Sun.
Sooner, faid Glaucus, fhall the ash remove
From mountains, and the fwelling surges love;
Or humble fea-weed to the hills repair;
E'er I think any but my Scylla fair.

Straight Circe reddens with a guilty shame,
And vows revenge for her rejected flame.
Fierce liking oft' a fpite as fierce creates ;
For love refus'd, without averfion, hates.
To hurt her hapless rival, fhe proceeds;
And, by the fall of Scylla, Glaucus bleeds.

Some fascinating beverage now she brews,
Compos'd of deadly drugs and baneful juice.
At Rhegium the arrives; the ocean braves,
And treads with unwet feet the boiling waves.
Upon the beach a winding bay there lies,
Shelter'd from feas, and shaded from the skies :
This ftation Scylla chofe; a foft retreat
From chilling winds, and raging Cancer's heat.
The vengeful Sorcerefs vifits this recess ;
Her charm infufes, and infects the place.
Soon as the nymph wades in, her nether parts
Turn into dogs; then at herself she starts.

A ghaftly

A ghaftly horror in her eyes appears;
But yet fhe knows not who it is the fears;
In vain the offers from herfelf to run,

And drags about her what she strives to fhun.

Opprefs'd with grief the pitying God appears,
And fwells the rifing surges with his tears;
From the diftreffed Sorcerefs he flies ;
Her art reviles, and her address denies :
Whilft hapless Scylla, chang'd to rocks, decrees
Destruction to those barks, that beat the feas.

THE

VOYAGE OF ENE AS continued.

Here bulg'd the pride of fam'd Ulyffes' fleet;
But good Æneas 'fcap'd the fate he met.
As to the Latian fhore the Trojan ftood,
And cut with well-tim'd oars the foaming flood:
He weather'd fell Charybdis: but ere-long
The skies were darken'd, and the tempest strong.
Then to the Libyan coaft he stretches o'er;
And makes at length the Carthaginian fhore.
Here Dido, with an hofpitable care,
Into her heart receives the wanderer.
From her kind arms th' ungrateful hero flies;
The injur'd queen looks on with dying eyes,
Then to her folly falls a facrifice.

Æneas now fets fail, and, plying, gains
Fair Eryx, where his friend Aceftes reigns:

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First

First to his fire does funeral rites decree,

Then gives the fignal next, and ftands to fea;
Out-runs the islands where volcano's roar;
Gets clear of Syrens, and their faithless shore :
But lofes Palinurus in the way;
Then makes Inarime, and Prochyta.

THE

TRANSFORMATION OF CERCOPIANS

INTO APES.

The gallies now by Pythecusa pass;
The name is from the natives of the place.
The Father of the Gods, detefting lies,
Oft', with abhorrence, heard their perjuries.
Th' abandon'd race, transform'd to beasts, began
To mimic the impertinence of man.

Flat-nos'd, and furrow'd; with grimace they grin;
And look, to what they were, too near akin:
Merry in make, and busy to no end;

This moment they divert, the next offend :

So much this fpecies of their paft retains ;

Though loft the language, yet the noise remains.

ENEAS DESCENDS TO HELL.

Now, on his right, he leaves Parthenope:

His left, Mifenus jutting in the sea :
Arrives at Cuma, and with awe furvey'd
The grotto of the venerable maid;

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