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Do not this Precept of your Friend forget;
Which therefore more than once I must repeat.
Above the rest, great Juno's Name adore: 555
Pay Vows to Juno; Juno's Aid implore.
Let Gifts be to the mighty Queen design'd;
And mollify with Pray'rs her haughty Mind.
Thus, at the length, your Passage shall be free,
And you shall safe descend on Italy. 560
Arriv'd at Cumæ, when you view the Flood
Of black Avernus, and the sounding Wood,
The mad prophetick Sibyl you shall find,
Dark in a Cave, and on a Rock reclin'd.
She sings the Fates, and in her frantick Fits, 565
The Notes and Names inscrib'd, to Leafs commits.
What she commits to Leafs, in order laid,
Before the Caverns Entrance are display'd:
Unmov'd they lie, but if a blast of Wind
Without, or Vapours issue from behind, 570
The leafs are born aloft in liquid Air,
And she resumes no more her Museful Care:
Nor gathers from the Rocks her scatter'd Verse;
Nor sets in order what the Winds disperse.
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The Madness of the visionary Maid;
And with loud Curses leave the mystick Shade.
Think it not loss of time a while to stay;
Though thy Companions chide thy long delay: