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emblem of the aforesaid miracle. Milton in a 

 beautiful passage in Lycidas, makes use of this 

 metaphor of the ascending Orb of Day for a 

 similar purpose.* Perhaps the light of the Sun 

 was on this occasion viewed in water, which 

 by moving would cause it to dance, according 

 to an allusion in the Argonauticks of Apollo- 

 nius Rhodius, who compares this phaenomenon 

 to the wavering love of Medea for Jason.f 



On St. George's Day, April 23, the Fins 

 believe, according to Tooke,| that whoever 

 makes a riot is in danger from Storms and 

 Tempests; merely, I suppose, because at this 

 time of year April Showers prevail, which, 

 being highly electrified so as to lighten, surprize 

 us often with a loud and unexpected clap of 

 Thunder, to which during winter we have been 

 unaccustomed. 



May Day customs are well known, such as 

 dancing round Maypoles, making garlands of 



* So sinks the Day Star in the Ocean's bed, 

 And yet anon uprears his drooping head, 

 And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore 

 Flames in the forehead of the Morning Sky, 

 So Lycidas sunk low but raized high, &c. 



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