MEMOIRS OF 



Clos'd in a green recefs, unenvied lot! 

 The blue fmoke rifes fromlheir tnrf-built cot> 

 Bofom'd in fragrance bluih their infant train, 

 Eye the warm fun, and drink the filver rain. 



Beauteous Oimunda feeks the n'lent del), 

 The ivy canopy, the dripping cell. 



In the defcription of the Chondrilla and 

 her five amicable lovers, we find, in their 

 accordant iympathy \vith each other, a 

 fuppofed refemblance to the unifon-ftrings 

 of the Eolian harp ; and there is a fweet 

 enumeration of the excellences of it's varied 

 ftvre of tones and expreffion. 



To the picture of the Lychnis fucceeds 

 that of Gloriofa Superba, with her fuc- 

 ceffive train of lovers, the fecond number 

 rifing to maturity when the firlt periili. 

 This libertine lady of the groves introduces 

 the. ftory of the celebrated female Volup- 

 tuary, in the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, 

 Ninon de L'EncIos, whofe beauty and 

 graces are recorded to have been trium- 

 i phant 



