Th' affembly rofe, as thus the princess spoke, Then to the regal dome her way fhe took. Iphinoa, mindful of the queen's command, Approach'd the Minyans fcatter'd o'er the ftrand, Who throng'd around her, eager to explore 931 Wherefore the came, and what commands the bore

Then thus fhe faid: 'Strangers, to you as friends Hypfipyla, the feed of Thoas, fends

Her faithful herald with this ftrict command, 'To find the leader of your martial band; 'Him the invites (of amity a proof)

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Inftant they urg'd their chief's affent, and all
Prepar'd obfequious to accept the call.
A mantle doubly lin'd, of purple hue,
The fon of Afon o'er his fhoulders threw.
This Pallas gave him, when, with wond'rous art,
She plann'd his fhip, and measur'd every part.
Twere fafer to furvey the radiant globe
Of rifing Phœbus, than this splendid robe.
Fall in the middle beam'd a crimson blaze,
The verge furrounding darred purple rays.
In every part hiftoric fcenes were wrought;
The moving figures feem'd inform'd with
thought.

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Here, on their work intent, the Cyclops ftrove
Eager to forge a thunderbolt for Jove;
Half-rough, half-form'd the glowing engine lay,
And only wanted the fire-darting ray;
And this they hammer'd out on anvils dire;
At each collifion flash'd the fatal fire.
Not diftant far, in lively colours plann'd,
Two brothers, Zethus and Amphion ftand,
Sons of Antiopa: no turrets crown'd
Thy city, Thebes, but walls were rifing round.
A mountain's rocky fummit Zethus bore
On his broad back, but feem'd to labour fore. 970
Behind, Amphion tun'd his golden fhell,
Amphion, deem'd in mufic to excel :
Rocks ftill purfu'd him as he mov'd along,
Charm'd by the mufic of his magic fong.
Crown'd with foft treffes, in a fairer field,
Gay Venus toy'd with Mars's fplendid shield.
Down from her fhoulder her expanded veft
Difplay'd the fwelling beauties of her breast.
She in the brazen buckler, glittering bright,
Beheld her lovely image with delight.
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On a rich plain appear, not diftant far,
The Taphians, and Electryon's fons at war ;
Fat fteers the prize for which the fwains contend,
Thofe ftrive to plunder, these their herds defend;
The meads were moift with blood and rofy dew:
The powerful many triumph'd o'er the few.

Two chariots next roll'd lightly o'er the plains, This Pelops drove, and fhook the founding reins;

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Hippodamia at his fide he view'd:
In the next chariot, Myrtilus pursu'd,
And with him Oenomas; approaching near,
At Pelops' back he aim'd the vengeful spear;
The faithlefs axle, as the wheels whirl'd round,
Snapp'd fhort, and left him ftretch'd along the
ground.

Here young Apollo ftood, in act to throw
The whirring arrow from the twanging bow,
At mighty Tityrus aim'd, who bafely ftrove
To force his mother, erft belov'd by Jove:
He from fair Elara deriv'd his birth,
Though fed and nourish'd by prolific earth. 1000
There Phryxus stoop'd to listen to the ram,
On whofe broad back the Hellefpont he swam.
The beat look'd fpeaking: earnest could you
gaze,

The lively pièce would charmingly amaze.
Long might you feaft your eye, and lend an ear,
With pleafing hope the conference to hear.

Such was the prefent of the blue-ey'd maid-
In his right hand a miffile lance he sway'd,
Which Atalanta, to reward the brave,
Sure pledge of friendship, to the hero gave, ΠΟΙΟ
When on the breezy Mænalus the rov'd,
And wish'd the company of him the lov'd;
But he, of fuitors' amorous ftrife afraid,
Reprefs'd the fond intention of the maid.
Thus robb'd, thus arm'd, he to the city went,
Bright as a ftar that gilds the firmament,
Which maids affembled view with eager eyes
High o'er their roof in orient beauty rife.
On the bright fignal, as it darts its rays,
Attentive they with filent transport gaze.
Each, with this omen charm'd, expects, though
late,

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Return'd from diftant climes her deftin'd mate. Thus fhone the chief, for high atchievements

known,

Majeftic as he mov'd to Lemnos' town.
The noble heroines his footsteps meet,
With courteous joy the Grecian guest to greet,
Whose downcaft eye ne'er wander'd, till he

came

To the proud palace of the royal dame;
Obfequious damfels at the portal wait,
And quick unbar the double-folding gate: 1030
Then through the various courts extending wide,
And stately rooms, Iphinoa was his guide;
On a bright throne, with rich embroidery grac'd,
Fronting her fovereign the the hero plac'd.
Th' embarrass'd queen, her face with blufhes
Spread,

In courteous terms addrefs'd the prince, and faid:
Why, gentle ftranger, fhould your warlike train
At distance far, without the walls remain?
The men who till'd thefe ample fields before,
"Now turn with furrows on the Thracian fhore.
But hear, while I our matchlefs woes relate;
So fhall you know the ftory of our fate.
When o'er this realm my father Thoas reign'd,
The Lemnign youth, to fraud and rapine train'd;

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• On Thracian borders feiz'd the trembling prey, And brought thofe flocks, and lovely maids

away.

This Venus plann'd, with mischievous intent, And fierce among them fatal difcord sent. Their wives they loath'd, and vainly impious • led 1049

War's fpoils, fair captives, to the lawless bed.
Long we endur'd, forgiving infults past,
And hop'd the faithlefs would reform at laft.
In vain; each day but doubled our disgrace,
Our children yielded to a fpurious race.
The widow'd mother, the difcarded maid,
Forlorn, neglected through the city ftray'd.
No tender pity touch'd the parent's breast,
To fee his darling child abus'd, opprefs'd
Beneath a stepdame's proud, imperious fway:
No fons would then maternal duty pay,
Nor, as before, their mother's caufe defend;
No fifter then to fifter prov'd a friend:
But the gay troops of Thracian captives fair
Enthrall'd the men, and challeng'd all their
་ care;

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Or with their captives fly to distant climes. They fail, return, the few remaining males Demand, then quit us with aufpicious gales; • And

now the frigid fields of Thrace they ' plough,

And countries whiten'd with Sithonian fnow, Hafte then, conduct your comrades to the ( town:

Here fix your feat, and Lemnos is your own.
And if to high dominion you aspire, 1079
Reign here, and wield the fceptre of my fire.
You must approve; for not fo fair a coaft,
Or ifle fo fertile can the Ægean boast.

Hafte to your friends, and make my pleasures 'known,

Nor let them longer lodge without the town.' Artful she spoke, forbearing to relate How in one night each woman flew her mate. Then Jafon thus: "Whate'er your bounty 66 grants,

"Stores for our voyage, or our prefent wants, "Pleas'd we accept: I to my valiant bands "Will speed to fignify your kind commands, 1900 "Then foon conduct my comrades to the town: "But ftill, O queen, ftill wear your father's

66 crown.

"Not from difdain I fhun imperial sway, "But great atchievements call me hence away." He spoke, and gently prefs'd her fair right hand, Then fought his comrades fcatter'd o'er the ftraud, Unnumber'd damfels round the hero wait, Gazing with joy, and follow to the gate;

Then grateful prefents in fwift cars convey 1099
To the land's margin, where the warriors lay.
When Jason now to his adventurous bands
Had fignified Hypfipyla's commands,
With eager joy the Minyans hafte to share
Her friendly roofs, and hospitable fare.
The queen of love Theffalia's chiefs infpires,
For Vulcan's fake, with amorous defires;
That Lemnos, Vulcan's facred ifle, agen
May flourish, peopled with a race of men.
Great Jason haftens to the regal walls; 1309
The rest proceed where chance or pleasure calls,
Save great Alcides: with a chofen train,
Ambitious he in Argo to remain.

Eager with joy the jolly crowds advance
To fhare the genial feast, or lead the dance;
To Venus' and to Vulcan's fane they throng,
And crown the day with victims and with long.
Sunk in foft ease th' enamour'd heroes lay,
(Their voyage ftill deferr'd from day to day)
And longer ftill, and longer had declin'd,
Full loth to leave the lovely place behind,
Had not Alcides, the fair dames apart,
Thus fpoke incens'd the language of his heart:

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Miftaken comrades, does our kindred, fay, From our own country drive us far away? 'Or are we fondly thus enamour'd grown • Of foreign damfels, and defpife our own? 'Here fhall we ftay to till the Lemnian fields? Small fame to heroes this bafe commerce yields. No god, propitious to the fons of Greece, 1129 Without our toil, will grant the golden fleece. Our courfe pursue we; for the breeze invites; And let him revel in love's foft delights, Who here but ftays to propagate his kind, And leave a memorable name behind.'

Alcides thus: none dar'd to lift his eye, To breathe a murmur, or to make reply; But keenly ftung with this farcastic style, They hafte to leave the lov'd Vulcanian ifle. Soon as the damfels their fix'd purpose knew, Around the chiefs in bufy crowds they flew. 1140 As bees from fome deep-cavern'd rock proceed, Buzz o'er the lilies of the laughing mead, The sweets of all ambrosial herbs devour, And fuck the foul of every fragrant flow'r; Thus they in fwarms the parting Greeks address, With hands falute, with foothing words carefs; Then to the pow'rs above with fervour pray, Safe to their arms the heroes to convey. Hypfipyla the hand of Jafon prefs'd, And thus with tears the parting chief address'd: 7 "Adieu!-and may you with the fons of Greece "Return triumphant with the golden fleece. "Here shall you then my father's fceptre fway, "And his domains your sovereign will obey. "The neighbouring states will furnish large fup"plies,

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"And a vast empire by your wisdom rise. "But if on nobler plans your thoughts are bent, "And vainly I prefage the wifh'd event; "Abfent or prefent, to my memory kind, "Still let Hyppyla poffefs your mind. 1160 "And if with offspring Heaven fhould bless me, fay "How fhall I then my Jafon's will obey ?"

The prince beheld the queen with rapturous look,

And thus with mild benevolence bespoke : 'May these events, foredoom'd by heaven's decree,

'Successful prove, Hypfipyla, to thee.

'But ftill of Jafon nobler thoughts retain :

'Enough for me o'er my own realms to reign; May but the powers of heaven (I ask no more) 'Safe reconvey me to my native fhore. 1170

If that's denied, and you, my fource of joy, Bear, the foft token of our loves, a boy; Him, when mature, in kindness to your friend, 'My parents' folace, to Iölchos feud;

If then perchance the venerable pair

⚫ Survive their woes, and breathe this vital air,
There may he live, from Pelias far remov'd,
By Grecians honour'd, who his father lov'd.'
He fpoke his laft farewell: then first afcends
The hip, and with him his illuftrious friends. 1180
In their due ftations plac'd, each feiz'd an oar,
While Argus loos'd the cable from the fore.
With active ftrokes the vigorous heroes fweep
The founding bofom of the billowy deep.
As Orpheus counsell'd, and mild evening near,
To Samothrace, Electra's ifle, they steer,
That there initiated in rites divine,
Safe might they fail the navigable brine.
But, mufe, prefume not of thefe rites to tell:
Farewell, dread ifle! dire deities, farewell! 1190
Let not my verse these myfteries explain;
To name is impious, to reveal profane.
Thence the black main they lafle'd with all their
might,

Thrace on their left, and Imbros on the right;
And fafely, with the now-declining fun,
To far-projecting Cherfonefus run.

1201

Then fremm'd they, aided by the fouthern gales,
The ftormy Hellefpont with swelling fails,
Left the high-furging fea with morning light,
And reach'd Sigæum with approaching night.
Dardania paft, and high-exalted Ide,
They faw Abydos on the ftormy tide.
Thence fail'd they by Percote's pafture lands,
Pityea's meadows, and Abarnis' fands:
And nightly, favour'd by the friendly blast,
The purple-foaming Hellefpont they past.
An ancient inland in Propontis lies,
That towering lifts its fummit to the skies;
Near Phrygia's corn-abounding coaft it stands,
And far-projecting all the main commands; 1210
An ifland this, fave where the isthmus' chain
Connect both lands, and curbs the boisterous
maip.
[roar,
Roand its rough fides the thundering tempefts
And a fafe bay is form'd on either shore..
Alepus' waters near this ifthmus fall :
And bordering tribes the mountain Arcton call.
On this rough mountain, barbarous, fierce, and
bold,

Dwell mighty giants, hideous to behold;
And, wonderful to tell! each monster stands
With fix huge arms, and fix rapacious hands; 1220
Two pendent on their fhaggy shoulders grow,
And four deform their horrid fides below.
TRANS. II.

The lowland ifthmus, verging to the main,
The Dolian's till'd, and all the fertile plain.
O'er thefe reign'd Cyzicus, the brave, the young,
Who from the gallant warrior, Æneus, fprung.
The daughter of Euforus, firft in fame,
Bore Cyzicus, neta was her name.

Secure they liv'd, and free from war's alarms,
Though earth's huge fons were terrible in arms.
Sprung from the monarch of the hoary tide, 1231
On Neptune's aid the Dolian race rely'd.
To this fair port, with gentle-breathing gales,
This friendly fhore, Theffalian Argo fails.
Here the rope faften'd ftone they heave on fhore,
Which ferv'd as anchor to the fhip before,
But now too light, fo Typhis bids, they bring,
And leave it at the pure Artacian spring;
Then choose another on the rocky bay,
More ponderous far, the rolling ship to stay.
There the first stone unnumber'd years remain'd,
Till, as Apollo's oracle ordain'd,

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Th' lonians found, with rites myfterious grac'd,
And facred to Jafonian Pallas piac'd.
Soon as the Dolians, near approaching, knew
Theffalian Argo, and the godlike crew,
Led on by Cyzicus they hafte to meet
The princely band, and amicably greet;
Invite them down the winding bay to fall,
And fix their cable near the city-wall.
Thus friendly treated, the Pelafgic train
Strive with their oars th' interior port to gain.
Then firft Ecbafian Phoebus they adore,
And rear an altar on the founding fhore.
To them the king dispatch'd, with heart benign,
Fat theep, and strong exhilarating wine.
For thus the facred oracle foretold,

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When here arrives a band of heroes bold, 'With kind complacence treat the godlike crew, 'Meet not in arms, but pay them honours due!" Scarce had the down the monarch's cheeks o'er

fpread;

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No children yet had blefs'd the nuptial bed.
Clita, his lovely queen, the young, the fair,
Renown'd for beauty, and her golden hair,
Sprung from Percofian Merops, still remains
A ftranger to Lucina's cruel pains.
Late from her father's court the king convey'd,
With ample dower enrich'd, the blameless maid;
Yet he neglects the genial bed, and feasts,
All fears far banishing, with foreign guests. 1270
Oft he inquires of Pelias' ftern command,
And why the heroes left their native land.
As oft they alk'd what cities neighbouring lay,
And in Propontis which the fafeft bay.
But fcanty knowledge could the king beftow,
Though it behov'd them much thefe truths to

know.

When morning rofe, the Dindymean fteep
Some mount, to view the navigable deep,
And all its winding bays, the road they came
They honour'd with illuftrious fafon's name. 1280
The chiefs, who chose aboard the ship to flay,
Remov'd her from the moorings where the
lay.

Meanwhile the fons of earth, a numerous train,
From their bleak mountains rush into the plain,
R

Befiege the pervious bay, and strive to block
Its mouth with maffy fragments from the rock;
Intending there Theffalia's pine to keep
Hemm'd up, like fome huge monfter of the deep.
But Hercules remain'd: his bow he drew,
And heaps of giants with his arrows flew. 1290
The reft enrag'd, rough, rocky fragments tore,
Hurl'd high in air, and thunder'd from the fhore.
(This labour ftill for Hercules remain'd,
By Juno, Jove's imperial queen, ordain'd)
And fiercely now the glowing battle burn'd,
When lo the chiefs from Dindymus return'd,
Attack'd the defperate giants in the rear,
And dealt deftruction with the dart and spear;
Till earth's fierce fons, defil'd with wounds and
gore,

Dropp'd dead: their bodies cover'd half the shore.

1300 As near the fea's broad brink, with sturdy strokes, Afliduous woodmen fell afpiring oaks; Then draw them in due order from the flood, And thus well drench'd they cleave with ease the wood :

1310

Thus at the entrance of the hoary bay,
The frequent corfe of many a giant lay ;'
Some, tumbled headlong, made the sea their grave,
While their legs rofe above the briny wave;
Some o'er the fands their horrid vifage fhow,
Their feet deep-rooted in the mud below.
Thus their huge trunks afford abundant fare
To Neptune's fifhes, and the birds of air.
Soon as concluded was the bloody fray,
And favouring breezes call'd the chiefs away,
They loos'd; o'er fwelling ocean fouthern gales
Breath'd all day long, and fill'd their bellying
fails.

Night rofe, the favouring gales no longer laft,
The fhip drives backward with the stormy blaft.
Again they harbour on the friendly coaft,
Where late the Dolians entertain'd the hoft; 1320
And round the rock the steady cable bind,
The rock ev'n now to facred fame confign'd.
Here through the gloom of night again they came,
And knew not that the country was the fame.
Nor knew the Dolians, fo dark night prevail'd,
That back to Cyzicum the Greeks had fail'd;
But deem'd the chiefs a band of Macrian foes:
To arms they call, and force to force oppofe.
A gleamy luftre glanc'd along the field,
While fpear met fpear, and fhield encounter'd
Thield.

1330

In fun-fcorch'd bushes thus the bickering blaze Flames forth, and crackling on the branches preys.

Dire was the conflict; on the fatal plain
Their prince, alas! was number'd with the flain,
His queen and bridal bed beheld he ne'er again.
For Jason spy'd the prince advancing near,
And through his bofom plung'd the furious fpear;
The ribs it broke, and circumfcrib'd his date,
Wing'd with th' inevitable will of fate.
Fate, like a wall, devoted man furrounds,
And fast confines him in its circling bounds.
Himself he deem'd, in that diforder'd fight,
Vainly he deem'd¦ prote&ed by the night;

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1350

The favouring night, alas! produc'd his bant,
And chiefs unnumber'd with their prince were
For Hercules, with his all-conquering bow, [flain.
Difpatch'd Telecles to the fhades below,
And Megabrontes: by Acaftus' hand
Pale Sphodris lay extended on the ftrand.
Peleus to Pluto's dark dominions gave
Zelys the hardy, and Gephyrus brave.
Bold Telanion, well-fkill'd the lance to wield,
Left Bafileus expiring on the field.
Next Idas vanquifh'd Promeus by his fide;
By warlike Clytius Hyacinthus dy'd.
Fair Leda's fons, in bloody combat skill'd,
Fierce Megaloffacus and Phlogius kill'd.
And Meleager added two to these,
Itymoneus and valiant Artaces.
These all were chiefs in fighting fields approved,
Deplor'd as heroes, and as brothers lov'd.
The reft for fafety on their flight rely
(As trembling doves before the falcon fly);
Then to the city-gates tumultuous prefs,
And raise the piercing cry of deep distress:
The city mourn'd: they deem'd, return'd from
That hoftile Macrians had renew'd the war. [far,

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Which diftant ages will with forrow view.
When the fad news at Clita's ear arriv'd,
Not long the queen her monarch's fate furviv'd;
But woe augmenting, round her neck the tied
The noose difhoneft, and unfeemly died.
Her mournful dirge the weeping dryads fung,
While Dindymus with lamentations rung;
And all the tears that from their eye-lids fell,
The gods transform'd in pity to a well;
In cryftal ftreams it murmurs ftill, and weeps, 139"
And ftill the name of wretched Clita keep
A day fo difmal, fo replete with woes,
Till this fad day, to Dolians never rofe.
Deep, deep immers'd in forrow they remain'd,
And all from life.fupporting food abftain'd;
Save fuch poor pittance as man's needs require,
Of corn unground, or unprepar'd by fire.
And annual, on this day, the Dolians ftill
Sift coarseft meal, and at the public mill.
Thenceforth twelve days and nights dire ftorm
prevail,

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Nor could the chiefs unfurl the fwelling fail.
The following night, by fleep's foft power op
Once more in Cyzicum the heroes reft; [prefs
Mopfus alone and brave Acaftus keep
The watch nocturnal, while their comrades fleep

When, lo! a Halcyon, of cerulean hue,
O'er the fair head of flumbering Jafon flew,
In airy circles, wond'rous to behold,

And, fcreaming loud, the ceasing storm foretold..
The grateful found attentive Mopfus heard, 1410
And mark'd the meaning of the fea-bred bird;
Which gently rifing from the deck below,
Perch'd on the fummit of th' aërial prow)
Then rous'd he Jafon from his fleecy bed,
Of theeps' foft skins compos'd, and thus he faid;
O fon of Efon hear! be this thy care,
Hafte, to the fane of Dindymus repair;
There Cybele with facrifice implore,

So will the winds tempeftuous cease to roar.
For this proclaim'd the boding Halcyon true,.

As round thee funk in deep repofe the flew. 1421
By Cybele's dread power the vaft profound,

And all the winds in harmony are bound.

By her fubfifts prolific earth below,

And high Olympus, ever crown'd with fnow. Jove yields when the afcends the courts of day, And all the powers immortal own her sway.' To Jafon thus the venerable feer;

1430

And welcome came the tidings to his ear.
laftant the chief, exulting with a bound,
Sprung from the bed, and wak'd his comrades
round.

Flate with joy his looks, his words unfold
The glad prefage which Mopfus had foretold.
Then from the ftalls the youths appointed drove
Selected oxen to the heights above.

Some from the rock unloos'd the corded stay,
And with fleet oars approach'd the Thracian, bay.
From thence the top of Dindymus they gain'd;
Few were the heroes that aboard remain'd: 1439
By thofe the Matrian rocks, and Thracian land
Drectly oppofite, appear'd at hand;

The Thracian Bofphorus here, involv'd in shade,
Aad Myfia's rifing mountains were furvey'd;
There where his waters black lepus pours,
Nepea's plain, and Adrafteia's tow'rs,

A vine's vaft trunk adorn'd with branches food, Though old, yet found, and long had grae'd the wood:

This trunk they hew'd, and made by Argus' skill,
An image of the goddess of the hill;
Which on the rocky eminence they plac'd, 1450
With the thick boughs of circling beeches grac'd.
They rear an altar then on rifing ground,
Of tones that readieft lay, and wide around
Lifpofe the branches of the facred oak,
And Dindymus's deity invoke,

The guardian power of Phrygra's hills and woods,
The venerable mother of the gods.
O Tityas and Cyllenus too they call,

Of all her priests most lov'd, and honour'd most of all:

1460

For kill prophetic they alone are fam'd;
en Dactyli thefe priests are nam'd;
Both whom Anchiala in Dicte's cave
Brcaght forth, where chill Oaxis roll his wave.
While on the burning victims Jafon pours
Libations due, the goddess he implores
To imile propitious on the Grecian train,
And fill the tempefts of the roaring main.

Then Orpheus call'd, and youthful chiefs advance, All clad in arms, to lead the martial dance; With flashing fwords they clatter'd on their fhields, 1470

And fill'd with feftive founds th' aërial fields.
Loft in thefe founds was every doleful ftrain,
And their loud wailings for their monarch flain.
The Phrygians ftill their goddefs' favour win,
By the revolving wheel and timbril's din.
Of these pure rites the mighty mother show'd
Her mind approving, by thefe figns bestow'd:
Boughs bend with fruit, each from her bofom
pours

Herbs ever green, and voluntary flow'rs.
Fierce foreft beafts forfake the lonely den, 1480
Approach with gentlenefs, and fawn on men.
A pleafing omen, and more wond'rous ftill
The goddess gave the Dindymean hill,
That ne'er knew water on its airy brow,
Bursts into ftreams, and founts perennial flow.
This wonder ftill the Phrygian fhepherds fing,
And give the name of Jafon to the spring.
Then on the mount the chiefs the feaft prolong,
And praife the venerable queen in fong. 1489
But when the morning rofe they plied their oars,
And the wind ceafing, left the Phrygian fhores.
Then fair contention fir'd the princely train,
Who beft the toil of rowing could fuftain.
For now the howling ftorm was lull'd to fleep;
Ethereal mildnefs had compos'd the deep.
On the calm fea the labouring chiefs rely'd;
Fleet flew the fhip along the yielding tide;
Not Neptune's steeds fo fwift, with loofen'd reins,
Skim the light level of the liquid plains.
But when with even-tide the bluftering breeze
Brush'd the broad bofom of the fwelling feas,
The wearied chiefs their toilfome courfe reprefs'd,
And all, fave great Alcides, funk to rest.
Swift through the waves his arm unaided drew
The fhip, deep-laden with the drowsy crew.
Through all her planks the well-compacted pinc
Shook, as his oars difpers'd the foamy brine.
But foon the heroes view'd the Myfian fhore,
As by the mouth of Ryndacus they bore.
On Phrygia's fields a wishful look they caft, 1510
And huge Egeon's promontory pass'd,
When great Alcides, at one luckless stroke,
His oar, hard ftraining, near the middle broke.
One part was swallow'd in the whelming main,
One, though he fell, his grafping hands retain ;
Backward he fell, but foon his feat regain'd,
And lothing reft in mute amaze remain'd,
What time the weary labourer, wanting reft,
Hies to his cot with pining fast opprefs'd;
Ev'n in the entrance of his rural door
His tottering knees he bends, and moves no

more;

1520

His dufty limbs he views, and callous hands,
And curfes hunger's infolent demands:
Then, not till then, the chiefs to Chius row,
Chius, whofe ftreams around Arganthon flow.
The friendly Myfians on their peaceful coaft
Receive with hospitality the hoft;

Abundant ftores they fend, with hearts benign,
Fat fheep, and strong exhilarating wine. 1529