the South-Sea. 



Vucftro cal^ado cs la Luna, 

 Vneftra veftidura cl Sol, 

 Manto bordado de Eftrellas, 

 Por corona el mifmo Dios. 



The Moon is your Footfiool, 

 The Sun your Garment, 

 TourVeil embroider d mtbStarr 

 God himfelf your Crown. 



Aunque le pcfe al Demonio, 



Y reviente Satanas, 

 Alabemos a Maria 

 Sin pecado original. 



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El Demon io efta muy mal, 



Y no tiene mejoria, 

 Porque no puede eftorbar 

 La devocion de Maria. 



Thti it fret the Devil, 

 And Satan bur ft for Rage y 

 Let us praije Mary 

 Conceived without original Sin. 



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The Devil is very ill, 

 And not likely to mend, 

 Becaufe he cannot obftrutt 

 The Devotion to Mary. 



This Fragment of Poetry may alfo ferve to fhew the 

 Tafte of the Spanijh Nation, which is only fond of Meta- 

 phors and extravagant Comparifons, taken from the Sun, 

 the Moon and the Stars, or from precious Stones, which 

 often carries them into a Sort of Ridicule, and an out-of- 

 the-way Flight, which they take for Sublime. Thus, in 

 this Hymn, the Poet afligns the Virgin the Moon for her 

 Footftool, the Stars for the Embroidery of her Veil, at the 

 fame time that he places her Houfe in the Sun ; which, of 

 Confequence, muft include them all : But if he has wanted 

 Judgment in his Poetical Enthufiafm, it may be fa id he is 

 much miftaken, when he fays that the Devil is burfting 

 with Rage to fee the Devotion to the Virgin in Repute in 

 Peru. That Devotion is certainly too much intermixed 

 with Vices and Senfuality, to make us believe it can be very 

 meritorious to them. 1 know they are very careful to fay 

 the Rofary often daily $ but it may be faid they aire there- 

 in true Pharifees, and think that Prayer confifts in much 

 Talking, tho' meerly with the Lips, and with fo little At- 



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