222 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



Who oft deceived the satyrs that pursued. 

 The rural gods, and those whom woods include. 

 In exercises, and in chaste desire, 

 Diana- like ; and such in her attire. 

 You either in each other might behold. 

 Save that her bow was horn — Diana's, gold : 

 Yet oft mistook. Pan, crown'd with pines, returning 

 From steep Lycaeus, saw her; and love-burning. 

 Thus said : ' Fair virgin, grant a god's request. 

 And be his wife.' Surcease to tell the rest ; 

 How from his prayers she fled, as from her shame. 

 Till to smooth Ladon's sandy banks she came : 

 There stopp'd ; implored the liquid sister's aid 

 To change her shape, and pity a forced maid. 

 Pan, when he thought he had his Syrinx clasp'd 

 Between his arms, reeds for her body grasp'd. 

 He sighs : they, stirr'd therewith, report again 

 A mournful sound, like one that did complain. 

 Rapt with the music — ' Yet, oh sweet !' said he, 

 ' Together ever thus converse will we.' 

 Then of unequal wax-join'd reeds he framed 

 This seven-fold pipe : of her 'twas Syrinx named." 



Sandys' Ovid, book 1. 



Lilac, or Lilag, is a Persian word, signifying a flower. 



Of the Common Lilac there are three varieties : the 

 Blue, the Violet, and the White. The second is gene- 

 rally known by the name of the Scotch Lilac : this has 

 the fullest flowers. 



" The Lilac," says Mr. Martyn, " is very commonly seen 

 in English gardens, v/here it has long been cultivated as 

 a flowering shrub. It is supposed to grow naturally in 

 some parts of Persia ; but it is so hardy as to resist the 

 greatest cold of this country. 



" The Scotch Lilac," continues he, " is the most beau- 

 tiful of the three ; and is probably so called because it 

 was first mentioned in the catalogue of the Edinburgh 

 garden." 



