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* half-opened buds ; and the Cocila burfts into fong, when he fees theblof- 

 4 foms gliftening on the lovely Rafdla' 



The jealous Ra'd ha' gave noanfwerj and, foon after, her officious 

 friend, perceiving the foe of Mura in the foreft eager for the rapturous 

 embraces of the herdfmen's daughters, with whom he was dancing, thus 

 again addreffed his forgotten miftrefs ; * With a garland of wild flowers 

 ■ defcending even to the yellow mantle, that girds his azure limbs, diftin- 

 1 guifhed by fmiling cheeks and by ear-rings, that fparkle, as he plays, 

 ' Her 1 exults in the ajfemblage of amorous damfels. One of them prefles him 



* with her fuelling breaft, while (he warbles with exquifite melody. Ano- 



* ther, affeded by a glance from his eye, ftands meditating on the lotos 



* of his face. A third, on pretence of whifpering a fecret in his ear, ap- 



* proaches his temples, and kifles them with ardour. One feizes his man- 



* tie and draws him towards her, pointing to the bovver on the banks of 



* Yamuna, where elegant Vanjulas interweave their branches. He applauds 

 ' another, who dances in the fportive circle, whilft her bracelets ring, as 



* fhe beats time with her palms. Now he carefles one, and kiffes another, 



* fmiling on a third with complacency ; and now he chafes her, whofe beau- 

 « ty has mod allure J him. Thus the wanton Heri frolicks, in the fcafon 



* of fweets, amo.ig the maids of Vraja, who. ruin to his embraces, as if he 

 ' were Pleafure itfelf afluming a human form; and one of them, under a 



* pretext of hymning his divine perfections, whifpers in his ear: " Thy 

 " lips, my beloved, are neclar." 



Ra-d ha' remains in the foreft; but, refenting the promifcuous paffion 

 of Heri, a;>d his neglecl of her beauty, which he once thcught fuperiour, 

 (lie retires to a bower of twining plants, the fummit of which refounds 



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