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Breath'd odours, and through all the diftant earth *. 

 Her whole fair body with thefe fweets bedew'd, 

 She pafs'd the comb through her ambrofial hair, 

 And braided her light locks ftreaming profufe 

 From her immortal brows ; with golden fluds 

 She made her gorgeous mantle fail before j 

 Etherial texture, labour of the hands 

 Of Pallas, beautified with various arts, 

 And brac'd it with a zone, fring'd all around 

 An hundred fold j her pendants, triple gemm'd, 

 Luminous, graceful in her ears me hung f- . 

 And covering all her glories with a veil 

 Sun-bright, new woven, bound to her fair feet 

 Her fandals elegant. Thus full attir d 

 In all her ornaments, me iflued forth, 

 And beck'ning Venus from the other powejfll 

 Of Heav'n apart, the Goddefs thus befpake. 



Pope's tranflation of the fame pafTage. 



Here firft me bathes, and round her body pours 

 Soft oils of fragrance, and ambrofial mowers. 

 The winds perfum'd, the balmy gale convey 

 Through heav'n, through earth, and all th' aerial way, 

 Spirit divine I whofe exhalation greets 

 The fenfe of Gods with more than mortal fweets. 



Obfcure and very awkward expreffion. f Moil unpoetic. 



