The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue . The place with threats command her to forfake;Then, with their hands and feet, difturb the lake :And, leaping with malicious motions, moveThe troubled mud ; wjjjcb, rifmg, floats JEternumftagnO) dixit, vivatis in ifio :E*veriiunt optata , faid me, may ye in this water dwell ;And, as the Goddefs winYd, it Virg. Mxu 6» Theocr. in Hyla. Apollon, 1. 1. ? Hymn,in Vener, JHafe 70. ( **i ) * fay, Aurora^ whom the p Greeks call
The Pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue . The place with threats command her to forfake;Then, with their hands and feet, difturb the lake :And, leaping with malicious motions, moveThe troubled mud ; wjjjcb, rifmg, floats JEternumftagnO) dixit, vivatis in ifio :E*veriiunt optata , faid me, may ye in this water dwell ;And, as the Goddefs winYd, it Virg. Mxu 6» Theocr. in Hyla. Apollon, 1. 1. ? Hymn,in Vener, JHafe 70. ( **i ) * fay, Aurora^ whom the p Greeks call by another name ;you have named her parents right -, yet ? fome fay, thatfile was the daughter of Hyperion and Ttf/tf, or elie Pal-las, from whom the poets alfb called her Pailantias. P. Does hiftory relate nothng done by her ? M. Yes, r (lie by force carried two beautiful youngmen, Cephalus and ciithonus, into heaven. - Cephalus married Procrls, the daughter of the king ofjJibens. When Aurora couid by no perfuafion move himto violate his marriage-vow, fhe carried him into hea-ven \ but even there (he could not fhake his conftancy :therefore fhe fent him again to his wife Proms, difguifedin the habit of a merchant; who, being defirous to tryher fidelity to her abfent hufband, tempted her, withmuch courtfhip and many prefents, to yield to his de-fires ; and, when (he almoft confented, he call: off hisdifguife, and chid his wife for her inconftancy. Shewas greatly afhamed, and hid herfelf in the woods ; butafterward was reconciled to her huf
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