Whether the ftyle of Titan please thee more,
Whose purple rays th' Achæmenes adore;

Or
great Ofiris, who first taught the swain
In Pharian fields, to fow the golden grain;

Or Mitra, to whofe beam the Perfian bows,
And pays, in hollow rocks, his awful vows;
Mitra, whose head the blaze of light adorns,
Who grafps the ftruggling heifer's lunar horns.

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THE

FABLE

O F

DRYOPE.

From the NINTH Book of

OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.

DRYOPE

IN

ARBOREM.

IXIT: et, admonitu veteris commota mi

D' niftrae,

Ingemuit; quam fic nurus eft adfata dolentem:
Te tamen, o genitrix, alienae fanguine veftro
Rapta movet facies. quid fi tibi mira fororis
Fata meae referam? quanquam lacrymaeque dolor-

que

Impediunt, prohibentque loqui. fuit unica matri
(Me pater ex alia genuit) notiffima formâ
Oechalidum Dryope: quam virginitate carentem,
Vimque Dei paffam, Delphos Delonque tenentis,
Excipit Andraemon; et habetur conjuge felix.;

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NOTES.

DRYOPE.] Upon the Occafion of the Death of Hercules, his Mother Alcmena recounts her misfortunes to Iole, who answers

THE

FABLE

O F

DRYOPE.

HE faid, and for her loft Galanthis fighs,
When the fair Confort of her fon replies.
Since you a fervant's ravish'd form bemoan,
And kindly figh for forrows not your own;
Let me (if tears and grief permit) relate
A nearer woe, a fifter's stranger fate.

No Nymph of all Oechalia could compare
For beauteous form with Dryope the fair,
Her tender mother's only hope and pride,
(Myfelf the offspring of a second bride.)

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This Nymph comprefs'd by him who rules the day, Whom Delphi and the Delian ifle obey,

Andræmon lov'd; and, blefs'd in all thofe charms That pleas'd a God, fucceeded to her arms.

NOTES.

with a relation of thofe of her own family, in particular the Transformation of her fifter Dryope, which is the fubject of the enfuing Fable,