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That Signal given they mount her to the Skies,⁠$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
And now beneath her fruitful Tempé lies,
Whose Stores she ransacks, then to Crete she flies;
There Ossa, Pelion, Othrys, Pindus, all
To the fair Ravisher a Booty fall;
The Tribute of their Verdure she collects,
Nor proud Olympus' Height his Plants protects.
Some by the Roots she plucks; the tender Tops
Of others with her culling Sickle crops.
Nor could the Plunder of the Hills suffice,
Down to the humble Vales, and Meads she flies;
Apidanus, Amphrysus, the next Rape
Sustain, nor could Enipeus' Banks escape;
Thro' Beebé's Marsh, and thro' the Border rang'd
Whose Pasture Glaucus to a Triton chang'd.
⁠Now the Ninth Day, and Ninth successive Night,
Had wonder'd at the restless Rover's Flight;
Mean while her Dragons, fed with no Repast,⁠$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
But her exhaling Simples od'rous Blast,
Their tarnish'd Scales, and wrinkled Skin had cast.
At last return'd before her Palace Gate,⁠$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
Quitting her Chariot, on the Ground she sate,
The Sky her only Canopy of State.
All Conversation with her Sex she fled,
Shun'd the Caresses of the Nuptial Bed:
Two Altars next of grassy Turf she rears,
This Hecat's Name, that Youth's Inscription bears:
With Forest-Boughs, and Vervain these she crown'd;
Then delves a double Trench in lower Ground,
And sticks a black-fleec'd Ram, that ready stood,
And drench'd the Ditches with devoted Blood:
New Wine she pours, and Milk from th' Udder warm,⁠$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
With mystick Murmurs to compleat the Charm,
And subterranean Deities alarm.
To the stern King of Ghosts she next apply'd,
And gentle Proserpine, his ravish'd Bride,

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