A HYMNE TO HERMES.
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And cast a sparkling crack up to the Skye;
All the drie parts, so feruent were, and hye
In their combustion. And how long the force
Of glorious Vulcan, kept the fire in course;
So long was he, in dragging from their stall,
Two of the crook-hancht Herd: that ror'd withall;
And rag'd for feare, t'approch the sacred fire:
To which did all, his dreadfull powrs aspire.
When (blustring forth their breath) He on the soule,
Cast both, at length; though with a world of toile.
For long he was, in getting them to ground
After their through-thrust, and most mortall wound.
But worke, to worke, he ioin'd; the flesh and cut,
Couerd with fat; and (on treene broches put)
In peeces rosted. But, in the'Intestines
The black blood, and the honorarie chines,
Together with the carcases, lay there
Cast on the cold earth, as no Deities chere.
The Hydes, vpon a rugged rock he spred;
And thus were these now, all in peeces shred,
And undistinguisht from Earths common herd:
Though borne for long date; and to heauen endeard;
And now must euer liue, in dead euent.
But Hermes, herehence, hauing his content,
Car'd for no more; but drew to places euen,
The fat-works, that, of force, must haue for heauen
Their capitall ends; though stlone; and therefore were
In twelue parts cut, for twelue choice Deities chere,
All the drie parts, so feruent were, and hye
In their combustion. And how long the force
Of glorious Vulcan, kept the fire in course;
So long was he, in dragging from their stall,
Two of the crook-hancht Herd: that ror'd withall;
And rag'd for feare, t'approch the sacred fire:
To which did all, his dreadfull powrs aspire.
When (blustring forth their breath) He on the soule,
Cast both, at length; though with a world of toile.
For long he was, in getting them to ground
After their through-thrust, and most mortall wound.
But worke, to worke, he ioin'd; the flesh and cut,
Couerd with fat; and (on treene broches put)
In peeces rosted. But, in the'Intestines
The black blood, and the honorarie chines,
Together with the carcases, lay there
Cast on the cold earth, as no Deities chere.
The Hydes, vpon a rugged rock he spred;
And thus were these now, all in peeces shred,
And undistinguisht from Earths common herd:
Though borne for long date; and to heauen endeard;
And now must euer liue, in dead euent.
But Hermes, herehence, hauing his content,
Car'd for no more; but drew to places euen,
The fat-works, that, of force, must haue for heauen
Their capitall ends; though stlone; and therefore were
In twelue parts cut, for twelue choice Deities chere,
