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VIRGIL's
Past. V.
Or will you to the cooler Cave succeed,
Whose Mouth the curling Vines have overspread?
MENALCAS.
Amyntas only rivals you in Voice.10
MOPSUS.
Who thinks his Voice with Phœbus may compare?
MENALCAS.
Or dying Phillis have inspir'd your Lays:
If her you mourn, or Codrus you commend,15
Begin, and Tityrus your Flock shall tend.
MOPSUS.
Which on the Beeches Bark I lately writ:
I writ, and sung betwixt; now bring the Swain
Whose Voice you boast, and let him try the Strain.20
MENALCAS.
Or the pale Sallow to the blushing Rose;
Such is his Voice, if I can judge aright,
Compar'd to thine, in sweetness and in height.
MOPSUS.
The gloomy Grotto makes a doubtful day.
The Nymphs about the breathless Body wait
Of Daphnis, and lament his cruel Fate.