About the temple dwelt of human name Unnumber d nations, it acquired such fame.

Being all of stone, built for eternal date;
And hear it did a fountain propagate
A fair stream far away; when jove's bright
seed.

The King Apollo, with an arrow, freed
From his strong string, destroy'd the
Dragoness

That wonder nourish'd, being of such

excess

In size, and horridness of monstrous shape, That on the forced earth she wrought many

a rape;

Many a spoil made on it ; many an ill On crook-haunch d herds brought, being impurpled still

With blood of all sorts; having undergone The charge of Juno, with the golden throne,

To nourish Typhon, the abhorr'd affright And bane of mortals, whom into the light Saturnia brought forth, being incensed with Jove,

Because the most renown'd fruit of his love (Pallas) he got, and shook out of his brain. For which majestic Juno did complain In this kind to the blest Court of the skies:

"Know all ye sex-distinguish'd Deities, That Jove, assembler of the cloudy throng, Begins with me first, and affects with wrong

My right in him; made by himself his wife; That knows and does the honour'd marriage life

All honest offices; and yet hath he
Unduly got, without my company,
Blue-eyed Minerva, who of all the sky
Of blest Immortals is the absolute grace;
Where I have brought into the Heavenly

Race

A son, both taken in his feet and head,
So ugly, and so far from worth my bed,
That, ravish'd into hand, I took and threw
Down to the vast sea his detested view;
Where Nereus' daughter, Thetis, who her
way

With silver feet makes, and the fair array Of her bright sisters, saved, and took to guard.

But, would to heaven, another yet were spared

The like grace of his godhead! Crafty mate,

What other scape canst thou excogitate? How could thy heart sustain to get alone The grey-eyed Goddess? Her conception,

mind

still

In messages return'd with all his will. Whom glorious Maia, (the nymph rich in hair,)

Mixing with Jove in amorous affair, Brought forth to him; sustaining a re

treat

From all th' Immortals of the blessed seat,

Jove

Inform'd at midnight the effect of love, Unknown to either man or Deity;

Sweet sleep once having seized the jeal

eye

Of Juno, deck'd with wrists of ivory. But when great Jove's high mind was co

summate,

The tenth month had in heaven confin

the date

f Maia's labour; and into the sight he brought in one birth labours infinite. or then she bore a son, that all tried ways

ould turn and wind to wish'd assays.

events fair-tongued, but false-hearted counsellor,

ector of ox-stealers; and for all stealths bore

varied finger. Speeder of night's spies, nd guide of all her dreams' obscurities. dard of door-guardians; and was born to be,

nongst th' Immortals, that wing'd Deity at in an instant should do acts would ask le powers of others an eternal task.

rn in the morn, he formed his lute at noon,

night stole all the oxen of the Sun;

id all this in his birth's first day was done,

hich was the fourth of the increasing

sing. His play was likewise an unspeakable thing,

Yet, but as an extemporal assay,

plore.

first way,

And unexcogitable thoughts in act Putting, to shun of his stolen steps th