Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose .. consisting of such as were never before printed in twelves With some account of the life and writings of th author . rt again!So prayd the Nymph, nor did (he pray in vain :For now fhe finds him, as his limbs (he preil,Grow nearer ilil!, and nearer to her breall;Till, piercing each the others flelh, they runTogether, and incorporate in One:Lafl in one face are both their faces joind,As when the itock and grafted twig combindShoot up the fame, and wear a common rind:Both bodies in a fmgle body mix,A fmgle body with a double fex. The Boy, thus loft in Wo
Miscellaneous works, in verse and prose .. consisting of such as were never before printed in twelves With some account of the life and writings of th author . rt again!So prayd the Nymph, nor did (he pray in vain :For now fhe finds him, as his limbs (he preil,Grow nearer ilil!, and nearer to her breall;Till, piercing each the others flelh, they runTogether, and incorporate in One:Lafl in one face are both their faces joind,As when the itock and grafted twig combindShoot up the fame, and wear a common rind:Both bodies in a fmgle body mix,A fmgle body with a double fex. The Boy, thus loft in Woman, now furveydThe rivers guilty ilream, and thus heprayd.(He prayd, but wonderd at his fof ter tone,Surprizd to hear a voice but half his own)You Parent-Gods, whofe heavenly names I bear,Hear your Hermaphrodite, and grant my prayer, Oh I 178 Poems on feveral Occasions. Oh Grant, that whomfoeer thefe ftreams contain,If Man he enterd he may rife againSupple unfinewd, and but half a Man! The heavenly Parents anfwerd from on high,Their two-fhapd fon, the double votary ; t Then gave a fecret virtue to the flood,And tingd its fource to make his wifhes NOTES Poems on feveral Occasions. 170 •VfTWTr^r^ NOTES O N Some of the foregoing Stories inOVIDi Met amorphofes. On the Story of Phaeton, page 113 TH E Stor#y of Pbaetoii is told with a greater air ofmajefty and grandeur than any other in all is indeed the moft important fubject he treats of, exceptthe Deluge; and I cannot but believe that this is theConflagration he hints at in the firft Book; EJfe quoque in fatis reminifcitur affore tempusQuo mare, que tellus, Correptaqne Regia cceliArdeat et mundi moles opero/a laboret, (tho the learned apply thofe verfes to the future burningof the world) for it fully anfwers that description, if the Cceli miferere tui, cir cum fyke utr unique, Fumat uterque polus. Furnas i8o NOTES. Fumat uterque polus- comes up to Correptaque Regia cceli Befides it is Ovids cuflom to prepare the
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