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With blood, cast on his shoulders. And thus He
With well-made songs, maintaines th'alacritie
Of his free minde, in silken Meddows crownde
With Hyacynths, and Saffrons: that abound
In sweete-breath'd Odors: that th'unnumber'd grasse
(Besides their sents) giue as through all they passe.
And these, in all their pleasures, euer raise
The blessed Gods and long Olympus, praise:
Like zealous Hermes; who (of all) I said
Most Profits, up, to all the Gods conuaide.
Who, likewise, came into th'Arcadian state;
(That's rich in Fountaines; and all celebrate
For Nurse of flocks.) Where, he had vowd a Groue
(Surnam'd Cyllenius) to his God-heads loue.
Yet euen himselfe (although a God he were
Clad in a squallid sheepskinn) gouernd there
A Mortalls sheepe. For soft Loue, entring him,
Conformd his state, to his conceipted Trimm.
And made him long, in an extreame degree,
T'enioy the fayre-hayrd Virgine Dryope.
Which, ere he could; she made him consummate
The florishing Rites of Hymens honord State.
And brought him, such a peece of Progenie,
As showd (at first sight) monstrous to the eye;
Gote-footed, Two-horn'd; full of noise, euen Then;
And (opposite quite to other children)
Told (in sweete laughter) he ought death no Teare.
Yet strait his Mother start; and fled, in feare
With well-made songs, maintaines th'alacritie
Of his free minde, in silken Meddows crownde
With Hyacynths, and Saffrons: that abound
In sweete-breath'd Odors: that th'unnumber'd grasse
(Besides their sents) giue as through all they passe.
And these, in all their pleasures, euer raise
The blessed Gods and long Olympus, praise:
Like zealous Hermes; who (of all) I said
Most Profits, up, to all the Gods conuaide.
Who, likewise, came into th'Arcadian state;
(That's rich in Fountaines; and all celebrate
For Nurse of flocks.) Where, he had vowd a Groue
(Surnam'd Cyllenius) to his God-heads loue.
Yet euen himselfe (although a God he were
Clad in a squallid sheepskinn) gouernd there
A Mortalls sheepe. For soft Loue, entring him,
Conformd his state, to his conceipted Trimm.
And made him long, in an extreame degree,
T'enioy the fayre-hayrd Virgine Dryope.
Which, ere he could; she made him consummate
The florishing Rites of Hymens honord State.
And brought him, such a peece of Progenie,
As showd (at first sight) monstrous to the eye;
Gote-footed, Two-horn'd; full of noise, euen Then;
And (opposite quite to other children)
Told (in sweete laughter) he ought death no Teare.
Yet strait his Mother start; and fled, in feare
