D'ye hear! *Or does a pleasing Frenzy cheat My Senfe, methinks I hear her kindly greet To gain thy Empire, and thy falling Pow'r? Let me t, thy Enemy, for once advise, "And thou shalt fee thy thinking State arife: "Hafte to the GODS, in full Affembly met, "In Accents foft, as is her felf, intreat દ Thy Fair one's Life. "I'll plead thy Caufe for once, avouch thy Wrong, "And with my Pow'r affift thy fault'ring Tongue. "Amaz'd, but pleased, the smiling BOY replies, "We justly fear when Enemies advise; "Their profer'd Grace is to themselves defign'd, "And for their own Convenience they are kind. "VENUS you hate, and this unusual Care, "Is left a fecond VENUS fhou'd come there. "Thro' Clouds of Kindness your Intent's difcern'd, Together thro' the liquid Plains thy fly, And now they reach the fummit of the Sky; Attend ye GODS, whilft I my Grief relate, "My finking Empire, and my falling State. Ye've fuffer'd FEBRIS to ufurp my Throne,' "And ('caufe a Child) to rob me of my own. "My Mother's Maids turn'd naked in Difgrace, "And Spectres now fupply the GRACES Place. "Behold where Mt juft expiring lies, "And little CUPID, whilst she's dying, dies. ( "From her bright Eyes my keenest Darts I took, "And Thousands died at ev'ry single Look. "Hear O YE GODS, and having heard from me, "Prevent in Time the fad Catastrophe. "Let me not thus be from my Empire hurl'd, "The Wreck of NATURE and diffolving World "Muft next enfue. Vid. Cato's Solil. " What "What is't keeps up this thining Convex ftill? "What Motive is't thefe rowling Orbits feel, "Whil'ft in Conjunction oft we fee 'em move? 'Tis a continual Harmony of LOVE. "Not Chance, but that the wand'ring Atoms join'd "And that's the ftrongest Ligament can bind. " 'Tis that which Wars and Bloodthed only charms, "Or Men wou'd fall a Prey to Humane Arms. 'Tis LOVE's the Caufe why thus your Altars blaze, "Whilft Men t' obtain their Wishes Temples raife. "A thousand Arguments might serve to prove "That Heaven were not Heaven but for LOVE, "Elfe why, great JOVE, haft thou forfook that Place, "And Pleafures fought 'mongft thofe of Mortal Race? When thought'ft thy felf more JOVE, than (when thy Arms "Three Nights embraced the fair ALCME NAS (Charms. "Penfive you fit, and nauseate ev'n the Light, " So. "So 'tis with more of this Celeftial Train," "That this is true, there's Luna can maintain. "All thofe gay Worlds, if once you lofe LOVE's "Strait into Primogenial Atom's fly. I (Tye, "This ye commit if ye refolve the FAIR i. "Shall die, for whom I make this earnest Pray'r. And now ye GODS, in trueft Light I've shown "How on my Empire moft depends your own. "Then grant this inftant MERCURY be fent, "The World's impending Ruin to prevent. "Command the THREE, this fatal Stroke fufpend, "That Thread once cut, their Pow'r and yours muft (end. "Go, hafte, fly † MAIA's Son, the GODS ap(prove, "Hafte to preferve the falling State of LOVE". With M-t's Health, the fmiling Nector's Crown'd, rown'd,> Let Mt live, the flowing Cup goes round; Vid. Ovid. + Vid. Virg. I'll I'll down, and (maugre Tantalus's Fate) A To th' lift'ning World the GODS Decrees relate: Of what she hears, wherever fhe reforts: I fear already has employ'd her Voice ; то |