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•* Seine afked, as a reward for her fervices, thofe 

 ** meadows which 3'ou fee below. The God- 

 '' defs confented, and granted, befides, to the 

 " daughter of Bacchus^ the power of making corn 

 ** fpring up wherever (he fet her foot. She then 

 ** left Seine upon her fhores, and gave her, for a 

 " companion and attendant, the nymph Heva, 

 '' who was charged to keep Uriel watch over her, 

 ** left Ihe fliould be carried off by fome Sea-god, 

 ** as her daughter Proferpine had been, by the 

 *' Prince of the infernal regions. One day, while 

 ** Seine was amufing herfelf, by running along the 

 " fands, to feek for (hells, and as fhe fled, uttering 

 " loud fcreams before the waves of the Sea, which 

 ** fometimes wet the foles of her feet, and fome- 

 ** times reached even to her knees, her compa- 

 *' nion Heva perceived, under the billows, the 

 *' hoary locks, the empurpled vifage, and the 

 " azure robe of Neptune. This God was returning 

 " from the Orcades, after a terrible earthquake, 

 " and was furveying the fhores of the Ocean, with 

 *' his trident, to examine whether their founda- 

 *' tions had not been convulfed. At fight of him, 

 *' Heva uttered a (hriek, and v^'arned Seiney who 

 *' immediately tripped toward the meadows. But 

 ** the God of the Seas, having perceived the 

 ** nymph of Ceres^ and being ftruck with the grace- 

 *' fulnefs of her figure, and her agility, drove 

 " his fea-horfes along the flrand, in purfuit of her. 

 ** He hadalmoil overtaken her, when fiie implored 



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