Where ye may

all that are of noble stem Approach, and kiss her facred yestare's hem.

II. SON G.

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·ER the smooth enamel'd green,
Where no print of step hath been,
Follow me as I fing,

And touch the warbled ftring,
Under the shady roof
Of branching elm star-proof.
Follow me,

90 I will bring you where the fits, Clad in splendor as befits

Her deity
Such a rural Queen
All Arcadia hath not seen,

95 III. SONG

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III.' SONG
Ymphs and Shepherds dance no more

By sandy Ladon’s lillied banks,
On old Lycæus or Cyllene hoar

Trip no more in twilight ranks,
Though Erymanth your loss deplore,
A better soil shall give ye thanks.

.
From the stony Mænalus
Bring your flocks, and live with us,
Here

ye

shall have greater grace,
To serve the Lady of this place.
Though Syrinx your Pan's mistress were,
Yet Syrinx well might wait on her.

Such a rural Queen
All Arcadia hath not seen.

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97. By fandy Ladon's lillied banks, Venerit &c] This was the most beautiful river of Arcadia, and the others and it might properly be said to are famous mountains of that coun- have lillied banks, fince Dionyfius, try: and the poet calls it fandy La- as I find him quoted by Farnaby, don after Ovid. Met. I. 702. has call'd it Euxarduov, motaju ON Donec arenofi placitum Ladonis ad sal süssparov nad wyd.

amnem

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The EARL of BRIDGEWATER, then

President of WALE S.