Thy rage the Phrygian felt, who durft aspire
T'excel the mufic of thy heav'nly lyre;
Thy fhafts aveng'd leud Tityus' guilty flame,
Th' immortal victim of thy mother's fame ;
Thy hand flew Python, and the dame who loft
Her num'rous off-spring for a fatal boast.
In Phlegias' doom thy juft revenge appears,
Condemn'd to furies and eternal fears;

He views his food, but dreads, with lifted eye,
The mouldring rock that trembles from on high.

Propitious hear our pray'r, O Pow'r divine!
And on thy hofpitable Argos fhine.
Whether the style of Titan please thee more,
Whose purple rays th' Achæmenes adore ;
Or great Ofris, who firft taught the fwain
In Pharian fields to fow the golden grain;

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Tu Phryga fubmittis cythara. Tu matris honori
Terrigenam Tityon Stygiis extendis arenis.
Te viridis Python, Thebanaque mater ovantem,
Horruit in pharetris. Ultrix tibi torva Megara 850
Jejunum Phlegyam fubter cava faxa jacentem
Eterno premit accubitu, dapibufque profanis
Inftimulat: fed mifta famem faftidia vincunt.
Adfis 6 memor hofpitii, Juroniaque arva
Dexter ames.

Seu te rofeum Titana vocari
Gentis Achæmenia ritu, feu præftat Ofyrin

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

Frugiferum, feu Perfei fub rupibus antri
Indignata fequi torquentem cornua Mitram,

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HERE liv'd in Lombardy, as authors write,
In days of old, a wife and worthy Knight;

Of gentle manners, as of gen'rous race,

Blefs'd with much fense, more riches, and fome grace.
Yet led aftray by Venus' foft delights,
He scarce could rule fome idle appetites:

For long ago, let Priests say what they cou'd,
Weak finful laymen were but flesh and blood.

But in due time, when fixty years were o'er,
He vow'd to lead this vicious life no more
Whether pure holiness infpir'd his mind,
Or dotage turn'd his brain, is hard to find;
But his high courage prick'd him forth to wed,
And try the pleasures of a lawful bed.

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