Their  rage  by  vengeful  Bacchus  rais'd  of  late.
Now  ftung  retnorfc,  and  love  fucceeds  to  hate.
Ah,  where  rcmorfe  in  female  bofom  bleeds.
The  tendered  love  in  all  its  glow  fucceeds.
When  fancy  glows,  how  ftrong,  O  Love,  thy  power  !

Nor  flipt  the  eager  God  the  happy  hour ;

Swift  fly  his  arrows  o'er  the  billowy  main,

Wing'd  with  his  fires,  nor  flies  a  fliaft  in  vain  t

Thus,  ere  the  face  the  lover*s  brcaft  infpires,.
The  voice  of  fame  awakes  the  foft  defires^

While  from  the  bow-firing  flart  the  fhafts  divine^

His  ivory  moon's  wide  horns  inceflfant  join.
Swift  twinkling  to  the  view ;  and  wide  he  pours^

Omnipotent  in  love  his  arrowy  fhowers.
E'en  Thetis'  felf  confcft  the  tender  fmart.
And  poured  the  murfnurs  of  the  wounded  heart  l

Soft  o*er  the  billows  pants  the  amorous  figh ;

With  wifliful  langour  melting  on  each  eye

The  love-fick  nympha  explore  the  tardy  fails

That  waft  the  heroes  on  the  lingering  gales^

Give  way,  ye  lofty  billows,  low  fubfide.
Smooth  as  the  level  plain,  your  fwelling  pride,.
The  cafe  with  which    the  female  breaft'       Defcendo,   ic  duccntc  D<»,   iammam  inur  ct
changes  its  relblutions,  may  to  the  hyper-        •       ^^^^


critic  appear  reprehenfi We.     The  expreifioii        E^^pcdior-
however  is  clamcal,  and  therefore  re    '     '
Virgil  uies  it,  where  ^neas  is  condiU
Venus  through  the  flames  of  Troy  ;


however  is  claflical,  and  therefore  retained.        This  is  in  the  manner  of  the  Greek  Pocts^
Virgil  uies  it,  where  i£neas  is  condoled  by       who  ufe  the  word  eth  fok-  Cod  or  Coddefs*


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