54-6 OLYMPIC DIALOGUE, 



Diana nor Proferpina, but the identical Luna % whcs 

 prefented the happy Endymion with fifty daughters. 



Luna?j Ah now have I found ' out the folution of 

 the riddle ! Hecate is merely a name, that fuits us all 

 three. 



Hecate.~] Pardon me ! Hecate is not merely a name, 

 but the true real bodily Hecate, which cpnfifts of us 

 all three together, and is therefore named the triple and 

 the triform deity. 



Diana.] We two then are as much Hecate as thou ? 



Hecate.'] So fay the mythologies. 



Diana.] If that be the cafe 3 then there are three 

 Hecat.es ; this is clear. 



Hecate I] Not at all ! I fee that ye do not yet urir 

 derffond me. 



Lptna.j If thou didft but flrlt underftand thyfelf, 

 good. Kfecate ! Plow can we be only one; while, as 

 .thou feefb, here are three of us ? 



Hecate.'] Indeed three, infofar as I am Proferpina, 

 thou art Luna, and this is Diana ; but only one Hecate, 

 inafmuch as Luna and Diana are Ixift as much Jlecate 

 as I my felf. 



Luna.] Confefs, goddefs, that thou art difpofed to 

 be merry with us, with thy mythological fubtilties ! 

 We are, and are not ; I am thou, and thou art not 

 I.; we are three, and are one, and what neither of 

 us fmgly is, that we are all three — what a hodge- 

 podge ! I will confent not to be Luna if I underfiand 

 one word of it. 



Hecate'.] It fares no better with my felf, my dear. 

 I was in hopes the matter would have been cleared up 

 by our meeting all together : but I rauftown that I am 



