S CANTO V. HE faid: the pitying Audience melt in Tears, But Fate and Jove had ftopp'd the Baron's Ears. In vain Thaleftris with Reproach affails, For who can move when fair Belinda fails? All fide in Parties, and begin th' Attack ; Fans clap, Silks ruffle, and tough Whalebones crack, And bafe, and treble Voices ftrike the Skies. *So when bold Homer makes the Gods engage, And heav'nly Breasts with human Passions rage; 'Gainft Pallas, Mars, Latona, Hermes Arms; And all Olympus rings with loud Alarms. Jove's Thunder roars, Heav'n trembles all around; Blue Neptune ftorms, the bellowing Deeps refound [gives way! Earth fhakes her nodding Tow'rs, the Ground And the pale Ghosts start at the Flath of Day! Triumphant Umbriel on a Sconce's Height " Clapt his glad Wings, and fate to view the Fight, Propt on their Bodkin Spears the Sprights furvey The growing Combat, or affift the Fray. Homer, ll. 20. While While thro' the Prefs enrag'd Thaleftris flies, A mournful Glance Sir Fopling upwards caft, As bold Sir Plume had drawn Clariffa down, + Now Jove fufpends his golden Scales in Air, Weighs the Mens Wits against the Lady's Hair'; The * A Song in the Opera of Camilla. Vid. Homer, Il. 22. & Virg. Æn. 12. The doubtful Beam long nods from fide to fide; At length the Wits mount up, the Hairs fubfide. See fierce Belinda on the Baron flies, With more than ufual Lightning in her Eyes; Nor fear'd the Chief th' unequal Fight to try, Who fought no more than on his Foe to die. But this bold Lord, with manly Strength endu'd, She with one Finger and a Thumb fubdu'd; Juft where the Breath of Life his Noftrils drew, A Charge of Snuff the wily Virgin threw ; The Gnomes direct to ev'ry Atome juft, The pungent Grains of titillating Duft, Sudden, with starting Tears each Eye o'erflows, And the high Dome re-ecchoes to his Nofe. Now meet thy Fate, th' incens'd Virago cry'd, And drew a deadly Bodkin from her fide. (*The fame, his ancient Perfonage to deck, Her great great Grandfire wore about his Neck In * In Imitation of the Progrefs of Agamemnon's Scepter in Homer, Il. 2. |