When Juno saw the Rival in her Height,
Spangled with Stars, and circled round with Light,
She fought Old Ocean in his deep Abodes,
And Tethys, both Rever'd among the Gods.
They ask what brings her there: "Ne'er ask, says she,
"What brings me here, Heav'n is no Place for Me.
"You'll see, when Night has cover'd all Things o'er,
"Jove's starry Bastard and triumphant Whore
"Usurp the Heav'ns; You'll see 'em proudly rowl
"In their new Orbs, and brighten all the Pole.
"And who shall now on Juno's Altars wait,
"When those she hates grow Greater by her Hate?
"I on the Nymph a Brutal Form impress'd,
"Jove to a Goddess has transform'd the Beast;
"This, This was all my weak Revenge could do:
"But let the God his chaste Amours pursue,
"And, as he acted after Iô's Rape,
"Restore th' Adultress to her former Shape;
"Then may he cast his Juno off, and lead
"The great Lycaon's Offspring to his Bed.
"But you, ye venerable Pow'rs, be kind,
"And, if my Wrongs a due Resentment find,
"Receive not in your Waves their setting Beams,
"Nor let the glaring Strumpet taint your Streams.
The Goddess ended, and her Wish was giv'n,
Back she return'd in Triumph up to Heav'n;
Her gawdy Peacocks drew her through the Skies,
Their Tails were spotted with a thousand Eyes;
The Eyes of Argus on their Tails were rang'd,
At the same time the Raven's Colour chang'd.
The Story of Coronis and Birth of
Æsculapius.
The Raven once in Snowy Plumes was drest,
White as the whitest Dove's unsully'd Breast,
