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She ended Speech, and all the list'ning Crowd,
In hollow Whispers, murmur'd an Assent;
Whom Jove addressing stern in Threatnings loud,
Shook with a Nod the brazen Firmament;
415 Whate'er rash God attempts Dissention now,
And dares with Me their Sov'reign to contend,
Let Styx infernal bind the solemn Vow,
Him headlong o'er Heav'n's Battlements I'll send;
Ev'n Juno' self shall from her Throne be driv'n,
420 Sister and Wife of Jove, Great Sultaness of Heav'n.
She ended Speech, and all the list'ning Crowd,
In hollow Whispers, murmur'd an Assent;
Whom Jove addressing stern in Threatnings loud,
Shook with a Nod the brazen Firmament;
415 Whate'er rash God attempts Dissention now,
And dares with Me their Sov'reign to contend,
Let Styx infernal bind the solemn Vow,
Him headlong o'er Heav'n's Battlements I'll send;
Ev'n Juno' self shall from her Throne be driv'n,
420 Sister and Wife of Jove, Great Sultaness of Heav'n.
- ↑ v. 421. Tho' more than.] Jove in the Iliad makes this Speech to Juno. A man's Love to the Sex in general, may be no ill Recommendation to a particular Woman, even to a virtuous Matron; tho' I fancy it could never make him more in favour with his own Wife, whatever Influence it might have on the Wife of another, unless Nature was a very different Thing in Homer's time from what it is in our degenerate Age.
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