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334 AN OLYMPIC DIALOGUE* 



ten both by gods and men ; an oracle of Themis, while 

 fhe was frill in poffeffiori of the delphic fbil^ and which 

 the prefent times recall to my remembrance. 66 When, 

 * c faid the oracle, after a long revolution of ages, there 

 * c ihall be a kingdom on the earth, wherein the tyran- 

 * c ny of kings, the haughtmefs of the great, and the 

 <c oppreffion of the people, keep equal pace with the 

 * c cultivation of all the faculties of man, and both at 

 * c length fhall be fo near their utmofl height, that in 

 4C one moment, every opprefTed eye fhall open, and 

 * c every arm be lifted up for vengeance : — Then will 

 * c the inexorable, but ever righteous Nemelis, with 

 <c her adamantine curb in one hand, and her hair- 

 * c breadth compafs in the other, defcend from the 

 * c tli rone of Olympus, to humble the proud, to raifc 

 cc the opprefTed, and to execute the feverefc retribution 

 <c on every info lent tranfgrefFor, who has trampled 

 " under foot the rights of men, and in the intoxica- 

 ie tion of his arrogance would own no other law than 

 *< the licentious demands of his paffions and caprices* 

 * c Contented to rule in fubordination to her, Jupiter 

 4C himfelf will then be nothing more than the executor 

 <c of the laws that lie fhall give to the nations of the 

 i c earth. A more golden ag-e than the faturnian will 

 * e then arife to the innumerable races of better men $ 

 44 univerfal harmony will then render them all one fa- 

 « c mily, and mortality alone will be the diftinclion.be* 

 6i tween the felicity of the inhabitants of the earth and 

 *' thofe of Olympus." 



Juno, fmilmg."] That founds nobjy, Jupiter ! — And 

 thou believeft in this lovely poetic dream ; and art re-* 



folved^ 



