In Satyr's fhape Antiopa he fnatch'd, Mæonis elufam defignat imagine tauri Fecit et Afterien aquila luctante teneri : I don't remember to have read that Jupiter turned himself into a ram for Helle's fake. She whom Spenfer calls the Thracian maid, is called by Ovid Deoïs, and fuppofed to be Proferpina. As Spenfer fays, to beat the buxom air, So Milton: Winnows the buxom air. STANZ. XXXVI. 1 And thou, fair Phoebus, in thy colours bright, It It is a downright blunder to say that Cupid shot Apollo with a leaden dart, when he made him love Daphne. Hear Ovid, Met. I. 468. Eque fagittifera promfit duo tela pharetra Diverforum operum. Fugat hoc, facit illud amorem. Lafit Apollineas trajecta per offa medullas. Spenfer fays that Phoebus was thus punished for having discovered the affair of Mars and Venus; but Venus took her revenge of him, by making him fall in love with Leucothee. At leaft Ovid fays fo, Met. IV. 190. STAN Z. XXXVII. He fays that Coronis, the miftrefs of Apollo, was turned into a fweet-briar: a metamorphofis, of which Ovid fays nothing in the ftory of Coronis. STANZ. XXXIX. Speaking of Phobus: He loved Iffe for his deareft dame, Whiles that from heaven he fuffered exile. Here is a fault, either of the poet's, or elfe occafioned by a wrong punctuation: for, as the text stands, the sense is, that Apollo, for the fake of Iffe, and that he might feed her cattle, became the cowherd of Admetus. They are two diftinct Fables; and they might be separated by a full stop, or a colon, thus: And for her fake a cowherd vile became : That is: he also became the fervant of Admetus, a cowherd vile, &c. This is pretty much in Spenfer's elliptical manner, fo that poffibly he might intend it fo. In Hughes' Edit. it is: The fervant of Admetus' cowherd vile. That is, the fervant of the cowherd of Admetus; which is ftill worse. He follows Ovid, Met. VI. 122. Eft illic agreftis imagine Phabus: Utque modò accipitris pennas, modò terga leonis The words in Ovid, agreftis imagine Phabus, which are not explained by the Commentators that I have seen, relate probably to his ferving Admetus. Inftead of bag, I read Now like a ftag, now like a falcon flit. Natalis Comes, IV. 10. fays of Apollo: Fertur bic deus in varias formas ob amores fuiffe mutatus in leonem, in CERVUM, in accipitrem. STANZ. XL. That his fwift chariot might have paffage wide, Which four great Hippodames did draw in teamwife ty❜d. Hippopotamoi, Sea-horses. STANZ. XLI, XLII. For, privy love his breast empeirced had; And Æolus' fair daughter, Arne hight, On whom he got fair Pegafus, that flitteth in the air. He He speaks of Neptune. From Ovid, Met. VI. 115. Next Saturn was, (but who would ever ween That to a Centaur did himself tranfmove. And into her fair bofom made his grapes decline. How many mistakes are here! Saturn, fays he, lov'd Erigone, and Bacchus Phillira. On the contrary, Bacchus loved Erigone, and Saturn Philyra, for that is her name. Nor did Saturn turn himfelf into a Centaur, but into a horse. Ovid. Met. VI. 125. Liber ut Erigonen falfâ deceperit uvâ: Virgil, |