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when, with indefatigable toil, they fhall drag from the 

 duft, or dig from the depths of earth and rubbifh every 

 ruinous or disfigured relict of the works which once, 

 through our influence, proceeded from the fpirit and 

 the hands of our favourite votaries, and exhaufl; their 

 powers in vain to emulate by an affected enthuliafm, 

 thofe miracles of genuine infpiration and the true in- 

 fulion of celeftial energies. 



Apollo^ Moft certainly that time will come, Jupi- 

 ter ! I fee if, as if it were prefent in full luftre before 

 me. They will again fet up our images, admire them 

 with awful emotion and reverential admiration, take 

 them as models for their idols > though they had been 

 held abominations under barbarian hands ; and — oh 

 what a triumph ! — their pontifs themfelves will be 

 proud of building magnificent temples to us, under 

 other names, ! 



Jupiter, taking a large goblet of neftar in his hand.~\ 

 long live futurity ! — To Minerva : My daughter, to 

 the time when thou fhalt fee all Europe changed into 

 another Athens, filled with academies, lycaeums, and 

 hear the voice of philofophy refound from the depths 

 of the forelts of Germania, perhaps ftill more free and 

 clear than formerly from the fchopls of Athens and 

 Alexandria ! 



Minerva, with a little /hake of the head.~] I am glad, 

 father Jupiter, to fee thee in fuch good fpirits at the 

 prefent afpect of affairs : but forgive me if I believe as 

 little in a new Athens, as in a new Olympia. 



Siuirinus to Mercury?^ I cannot get this Peter 

 With the pair of keys, who is to be my fucceffor, 

 fKt pf my heart. Mercury* How is it then with 



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