rj2 ANALOGT of GREEK LETTERSs 



So having faid, awhile he flood expeding 

 Their univerfal ftiout and high applaufe 

 To fill his ear : when contrary he hears 

 On all fides from innumerable tongues 

 A difmal univerfal hifs, the found 

 Of public fcorn. — — ^—i 



He wovJd have fpoke, 

 But hifs for hifs returned with forked tongue 

 To forked tongue : for now were all transform'd 

 Alike, to ferpents all, as accelTories 

 To his bold riot : dreadful was the din 

 Of hilTmg through the hall ; thick fwarming now 

 With complicated monfters, head and tail 

 Scorpion and afp, and amphifboena dire, 

 Cerafles horn'd, hydrus and elops drear 

 And dipfas *. 



On the other hand, it is certain, that a judicious introdudlion 

 of this letter produces, on many occafions, a very pleafing ef- 

 fedl ; fuch as may be perceived from the two concluding words 

 of the following verfes of the fame poet. Our firft parents are 

 the fubjedl. 



-He on his fide 



Leaning half-raifed, with looks of cordial love 

 Hung over her enamoured ; and beheld 

 Beauty, which whether waking or afleep 

 Shot forth peculiar graces ; then with voice 

 Mild, as when Zepbyrus on Flora breathes, 

 Her hand, foft touching, whifper'd thus f. 



Theocritdb, in the very beginning of his firft Idyllium, 

 reprefents Thyrsis, a fliepherd, addrefTxng a goatherd in the 

 following manner : " Goatherd, this pine, which is befide 



" the 



» Par. Loft, Book X. 

 t Ibid. Book V. 



