54§ OLYMPIC DIALOGUE. 



Luna,'] It is not good to tarry here-— let us fly 

 from hence ! 



[They run all three into the for eft. and rufh upon a troop 

 of nymphs and fauns , zvho, huddling together cry 

 out : It is Hecate! let us fly ! Hecate comes !] 

 Diana, to He date.] Hearefr. thou what the nymphs 

 fay ? This Hecate will certainly prove to be the 

 true one. . 



Luna.] Better and better ! But I hope at leaf! I 

 may be fare that I am not this Hecate. 



HecaU.] Heaven be praifed ! that another frees me 

 from the difagreeable honour of being Hecate. What 

 Hie is, and whether fhe be triple or quadruple, let her 

 fettle that with the mythologies ; I, for my part, am 

 very well content to reprefent in future nothing more 

 than the limple Proferpina. Good night, goddefTes ! 

 I p^o back to mv gloomy cenfort, 



Diana.] I to my dryads and greyhounds, 



Luna.] And I \_joftly] to my Endymion, 



THE TRUE CAUS2 OF COLBERTS GOOD FORTUNE, 



SULLY and Colbert, to whom the glorious 

 ssras of Henry IV. and Louis XIV. owed fo much, of 

 their fplendor, having frequently of late been men- 

 tioned, on occaflon of the talents of Necker, and the 

 downfall of the French monarchy, it may not be un- 

 welcome to our readers to be made acquainted with the 

 recti caufe of Colbert's fuccefs. 



Jeae 



