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old ivy (heltered it from the North, and covered, 

 with it's ever-green foliage, a part of the flair -cafe, 

 which led, on the oiufide, to the upper ftory. 



As foon as the flock approached the houfe, they 

 began to bleat, according to cuftom. Immedi- 

 ately, a young girl appeared, defcending the flair- 

 cafe, and carrying under her arm a velfel to re- 

 ceive the milk which Ihe was going to draw. Her 

 robe was of white wool ; her cheftnut locks were 

 turned up under a hat, formed of the rind of the 

 linden-tree ; her arms and feet were naked, and for 

 fhoes, (he wore focks, as is the falliion of the 

 young women of Arcadia. From her fhape, you 

 would have thought her one of the nymphs of 

 Diana y from her vafe, that Ihe was the Naiad of 

 the fountain ; but her timidity foon difcovered her 

 to be a fliepherdefs. As foon as (he perceived the 

 ftrangers, fhe cad down her eyes, and bkiflied. 



Th'ieus faid to her : " Cyanea^ my daughter, 

 " make hafte to milk your goats, and to prepare 

 " fomething for fupper, while I warm fome water 

 *' to wafh the ïtQt of thefe travellers, whom Jn- 

 " piter has fent to us." In the mean while, he 

 entreated the ftrangers to repofe themfelves on a 

 grafs-plat, at the foot of the vine. Cyanea, having 

 kneeled down on the turf, milked the goats, which 

 had alfembled around her 3 and, having finilhed, 



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