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And view the direful Shock the Wounds and Pain,
Which mortal Frogs from mortal Mice endure?
365 Or else to pious Mice afford thine Aid,
Who constant as thine annual Feast returns,
Have due attendance at thy Temple paid,
Where, whilst the consecrated Victim burns,
With mystick Dance,^[1] in Honour of the Day,
370 Circling thine Altars Verge, religiously they play?

XXXVIII.
With answ'ring Words the blue-ey'd^[2] Maid replies,
To tread mine awful Courts the Mice presume;
To share, unbid my festal Sacrifice,
Allur'd with grateful Scent of holy Fume;

1. v. 369. With mystick Dance.] The reputable Dancing among the Antients was said by some to be invented by Minerva.
2. v. 371. Blue-ey'd.] The Greek might be translated owl-ey'd; but that would not be so agreeable to the modern Gothick Taste, as it was to the antient Simplicity.

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