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allow me to cite fome Pafifages, which might receive 
both Truth and Beauty from fuch an Improvement: 
Where Homer fays, 
n^yi'clS'ccs S’’ 'TocS'cts re, to re £rivo$ ’Clpiwos, 
Agxr ov S’’, 7)V y cifjccc^ecv enritcKriaiv jcaAsacnj', 
Ht’ ecu rw rgztperoti, *) r ’Q-giavec S'ox.eva, 
On j F a,y.fJco(>o$ ?<f J t A osrpojv u>y.exvo7o. 
lAiacf. 2- 487. 
The Pleiads , Hyads , with the Northern Team, 
And great Orioris more refulgent Beam ; 
To which around the Axle of the Sky, 
The Bear revolving points his golden Eye, 
Still fhines exalted on th’ ethereal Plain, 
Nor bathes his blazing Forehead in the Main. 
Pope . 
Mr. Pope , amidft a fmall Miftake of the Sex, keeps 
only the Forehead above Water j but the Poet feems 
to exempt her intirely ; and fo does Virgil, when he 
makes Fear account for the fame Phenomenon, that 
Ovid (who preferves all the Fable of the Antients) 
aferibes to Force. 
Maximus hie Flexu Jinuofo elabitur Anguis 
Circum , perdue duas in morem jluminis Arclos : 
Arbi os Oceani metuentes c^Equore tingi. 
Virgil. Georg. Lib. I. 244. 
Around our Pole the fpiry PDragon glides. 
And like a winding Stream the Bears divides. 
The Lefs, and Greater, who by Fate’s Decree 
Abhor to dive beneath the f Southern Sea. 
Hryden. 
f Northern. 
5 C Nuper 
