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Now mark the Signs of future Ease and Rest;
And bear them safely treasur'd in thy Breast.
When in the shady Shelter of a Wood, 500
And near the Margin of a gentle Flood,
Thou shalt behold a Sow upon the Ground,
With thirty sucking young encompass'd round;
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These on thy City shall their Name bestow: 505
And there shall end thy Labours and thy Woe.
Nor let the threatned Famine fright thy Mind,
For Phœbus will assist; and Fate the way will find.
Let not thy Course to that ill Coast be bent,
Which fronts from far th' Epirian Continent; 510
Those parts are all by Grecian Foes possess'd:
The salvage Locrians here the Shores infest:
There fierce Idomeneus his City builds,
And guards with Arms the Salentinian Fields.
And on the Mountains brow Petilia stands, 515
Which Philoctetes with his Troops commands.
Ev'n when thy Fleet is landed on the Shore,
And Priests with holy Vows the Gods adore;
Then with a Purple Veil involve your Eyes,
Lest hostile Faces blast the Sacrifice. 520
These Rites and Customs to the rest commend;
That to your Pious Race they may descend.
When parted hence, the Wind that ready waits
For Sicily, shall bear you to the Streights: