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Nuper honor atas fummo mea Vulnera Ceelo 
Videritis Stellas illic , ubi Circulus Axem 
Uliimus extremum Spatioque brevijjimus ambit. 
Ovid. Met. Lib. II. 515. 
* — New Stars you’ll fee, 
In this approaching Night’s Obfcurity, 
With hateful Beams i’th ' Ar Stic Circle fhinc. 
He immediately adds. 
At vos Ji la fa contempt us tangit Alumna , 
* Gurgite cceruleo feptem prohibete Triones : 
Sideraque in Ccelo jlupri mercede recepta 
* P ellite , ne puro tingatur in <^/Equore Pellex. 
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Ne’er let thofe fpurious Stars approach the DeepT 
Nor in the purging Ocean’s Bofom Beep, [keep.?’ 
But their eternal Stain, their whorifh Tinfture } 
And when he describes them as a Team, it is with 
the fame Referve. 
Turn primim Radiis gelidi caluere Triones , 
Et vet it 0 frujlra tentarunt c^yEquore tingi. 
1 7 1 . 
Then the Scv’n Stars fir ft felt Apollo's Ray, 
And wifft’d to dip in the forbidden Sea. 
All which is a proper Hint for the ’Difpojition of 
the Globe, that mud correfpond to thefe Appearances 
* In the Ordeal Water, it was adjured, not to receive the Guilty, 
in Terms luce tliefe. 
then. 
