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at feafts, to point out, by exaft cadences, the 
movements of the fongs and dances. There 
might be, therefore, a peculiar propriety in af- 
fuming this inftrument, as the fymbol of that 
planet, which was fuppofed to be peculiarly fa¬ 
voured by the relidence of the Goddefs of mirth 
and love; and fo often appears in its greateft 
fplendour and beauty, in thofe evening hours, 
when the heat, the hurry and labours of the day, 
give place to coolnefs, tranquillity and peace, or 
to mirth and joy, the fongand the dance*. 
The 
* The Roman Poets have many beautiful allufions to the 
pleafures which attend the rifing of the evening Jiar. 
-- --Cum frigidus aera Vefper 
Temperat, & Saltus reficit jam rofcida Luna, 
Littoraque ; halcyonem refonant, & acanthida dumb 
Virg. G. III. 336. 
Venerif<iu,e falubre Sidus. Lucan Pharf Lib. I. 661. 
Vefper adeft, Juvenes, confurgite ; Vefper Olympo 
Expe&ata diu vix tandem Lumina tollit; 
Surgere jam tempus. Catulli Caren Nupt. I. 
Hefpere, qui Cado lucet jucundior Ignis? 
Qui defponfa tuafirmes connubia flamma 
Qus pepigere Viri, pepigerunt ante Parentes, 
Nec junxere prius, quam fe tuus extulit ardor. 
Quid datur a Divis felici optatius Hora. Id. V. 24. 
It is well known that this planet is often a morning liar, 
yirgil has given a charming defcription of her rifing in this 
ftation, and has taken particular pains to point her out, as 
the favourite of the goddefs Venus. 
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