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{lately retinue. Upon this imperial and 

 celeftial equipage the modern poet has 

 laviflied all the fplendorsof his imagination. 

 Cupid is the charioteer, and Zephyr flies 

 before, fhowcring rofes from his wings ; 

 Naiads and Dryads, Fawns and Wood-Boys 

 are in the train. The reader is empowered, 

 by diftinctnefs of poetic dcfcription, to pur- 

 fue the chariot with his eye, as it afcends . 

 the fteeps of Ida, now loft in it's thick 

 woods, now in full blaze, winding around 

 it's rocks. 



But furely there is an error of judgment 

 in making Cupid w r ing an arrow to the 

 breaft of Jove, as the retinue approaches, 

 fince that mode of awakening the paffions 

 of Jupiter for his queen, renders the charm- 

 ed ceftus a fuperfluous gift. And again, this 

 gay car is reprefented as drawn by doves ; 

 from- which it fhould feem that Venus had 

 lent her equipage, as well as her girdle, on 

 that occafion. 



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