4'4 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



■' culeSy like you, my dear guefts, was a great trsr 

 ** veller. Into this hut he deigned to enter; here 

 ** he repofed, while he was purfuing, for a year 

 *' together, the brazen-footed hind of Mount Eri" 

 ** mant-hus. Out of this cup he drank : you are 

 ** worthy of drinking from it after him. I ufe it 

 ^' only on high feftivals, and never prefent it to 

 ** any but my friends. No ftranger ever drank 

 " from it before you." He faid, and tendered the 

 cup to Cephas. It was made of the wood of the 

 beech-tree, and held a cyathiis of wine. Hsnuhs 

 emptied it at a Ungle draught; but Cephas^ Ama/iSy 

 and Tirîeus, could hardly matter it, by drinking 

 twice round. 



Tirieus afterwards conduced his guefts to an 

 adjoining chamber. It was lighted by a window, 

 fhut by a texture of rulhes, through the interftices 

 of which might be perceived, by the luftre of the 

 Moon, in the plain below, the iflands of the Al- 

 pheus. , There were m this chamber two excellent 

 beds, with coverlets of a warm and light wool. 

 Then Tirteus took leave of his guefts, wiQiing that 

 Morpheus might pour the balm of his gcatleft 

 poppy upon their eye lids. 



As foon as Amafis was Icfc alone with Cephas^ 

 he fpake with tranfports of delight, of the tranquil- 

 lity of this valley, of the goodnefs of the Ihepherd, 

 - "of 



