VALE OF TEMPE. 163 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Or wilt thou rather stoop thy vagrant plume 



Where, gliding through his daughter's honoured shades, 



The smooth Peneus from his glassy flood 



Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleasant scene ? — 



Fair Tempe ! — haunt beloved of sylvan powers, 



Of nymphs and fauns, where in the golden age 



They played in secret on the shady brink 



With ancient Pan. 



Akenside. 



TEMPE — ANECDOTES OF SURRIGEE — AMBEL AKIA — PLURALITY OF 



WIVES — Turk's idea of education — platamona — turk 



SELLING wine — INCONVENIENCE OF SUPERFLUOUS ARTICLES 

 OF DRESS. 



Both my companion and myself looked forward 

 with the greatest pleasure to our next day's ride ; 

 we were to pass through the celebrated Vale of 

 Tempe. Yes, "the pleasant vale in Thessaly/' 

 which, several years before, I had been in the 

 habit of having drummed into my head in the 

 " Propria quae maribus," and the description of 

 which in Ovid's Metamorphoses had occasioned me 

 many a pull of the ear, or a thump on the back, 



