



Her profperous courfe, fair Fancy met the Maid ; 1 3,0 

 Wit, Reafon, Judgment, lent their powerful aid;. 

 Till all compleat the gradual wonder fhone, 

 And vanquifh'd Nature own'd herfelf outdone. 



'Twas there the Goddefs fixt her bleft abodes, 

 There reign'd in Corinth, Athens, Sicyon, Rhodes. 

 Her various vot'ries various talents crown' d,.. 

 Yet each alike her infpiration own'd : 

 Witnsfs thofe marble miracles of grace, 

 Thofe tefts of iymmetry where ftill we trace 

 All Art's perfection : With reluctant gaze 140 

 To thefe the Genius of jfucceeding days 

 Looks dazzled up, and, as their glories fpread, 

 Hides in his mantle his diminifh'd head. 



./Egypto informis quondam pidlura reperta, 

 Graecorum fludiis, & mentis acumine crevit : 

 Egregiis tandem illuftrata & adulta magiftris, 9 j 



Naturam vifa eft miro fuperare labore. 



Quos inter, Graphidos Gymnafia prima fuere 

 Portus Athenarum, Sicyon, Rhodes, atque Corinthus, 

 Difparia inter fe modicum ratione laboris ; 

 Ut patet ex veterum Statuis, 'foraiae atque decoris 100 



