VE R. 3. But I attune my own Defeat.] Ovid feems to have imitated this Paffage :

Vincor, & ingenium fumptis revocatur ab armis,

Refque domi geftas, & mea bella cano.

Amor. L. 2. Eleg. 18.

I'm conquer'd, and renounce the glorious Strain
Of Arms, and War, to fing of Love again :
My Themes are Acts which I myself have done,
And my Mufe fings no Battles but my own.

VE R. 8.

But I attune my own Defeat.

From no arm'd Horfeman I retreat ;
Nor Footman on the dusty Plain,
Nor hoftile Fleet upon the Main;

Strange unknown Wars my Peace furprize,
Strange Fees which dart from Beauty's Eyes.

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O DE XVII.

ONA SILVER BOWL.

COME, Vulcan, all thy Skill impart,

COM

This Silver Mass implores thy Art.

No glitt❜ring Arms my Cares employ,
For what are Wars to Me and Joy?

But

VER. 8. Strange Foes, which dart from Beauty's Eyes.] Nonnus calls the Eyes ακοντιςῆρες ερώτων, The Archers of Love. And an Epigram in the Anthologia, fpeaking of Love, fays,

Οι με λέληθας,

Τόξοτα, Ζωοφίλας όμμασι κρυπτόμε

But not unfeen, in Zenophelia's Eyes

The little wanton Archer ambush'd lies.

VER. 3. No glittering Arms my Cares employ.] Al

luding,

luding, as Commentators obferve, to that pompous Suit of Armour which Vulcan made for Achilles, at the Requeft of his Mother, the Goddefs Thetis.

VE R. 7. I'd have no Conftellations fine.] Alluding to the Shield of Achilles, on which Vulcan defcrib'd the Constellations, as Homer informs us.

There fhone the Image of the Master-Mind,

There Earth, there Heav'n, there Ocean he defign'd;
Th'unweary'd Sun, the Moon compleatly round;
The Starry Lights that Heav'n's high Convex crown'd;
The Pleiads, Hyads, with the Northern Team;
Ard great Orion's more refulgent Beam;
To which, around the Axle of the Sky,
The Bear revolving, points his golden Eye,
Still fhines, exalted on th' ætherial Plain,

Nor bathes his blazing Forehead in the Main. Pope.

VER.9. Let no Orion frowning rife.] Orion, according to Hefiod, was the Son of Neptune, and Euryale the Daughter of Minos; but Ariftomachus makes him the adopted Son of Erythraus a Theban, who being childless, obtain'd him from the Urine of Jupiter and Mercury, in recompence for the hofpitable Reception he had given

them.

But fink me deep a mirthful Bowl,
Capacious make it, as my Soul!

I'd have no Conftellations fhine,

To guide me thro' my Sea of Wine.

Let no Orion frowning rife,

Nor Pleiads weep from mimick Skies.

them.

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For

Callimachus tells us, that he offer'd Violence to Diana, and was shot by her with an Arrow, of which Opinion is Horace.

Integra

Tentator Orion Diana,

Virginea domitus fagittâ.

L. 3. Od. 4.

From hot Orion's lawless Youth,

Ev'n chafte Diana scarce could 'scape

The luftful Fury of a Rape;

Till her Bow reach'd him, whilft he strove,

With fiercer Darts than those of Love.

Creech.

But Homer affures us, that he was belov'd by Diana, and shot by her out of a Fit of Jealoufy. His Conftellation is compos'd of Seventeen Stars. Anacreon gives Orion the Epithet of surès, hateful, because he is obferv'd to be attended with Rain and tempeftuous Weather. Horace calls him, Infeftus:

Dum pecori lupus, & nautis infeftus Orion.
Epod. 15.
As long as Wolves purfue the tim'rous Sheep,
Or stern Orion rages o'er the Deep.

VER. 10. Nor Pleiads weep from mimick Skies.] The

Pleiades

Τί δ' ἀφράσιν Βοώτεω ;
Ποίησον ἀμπέλες μοι,

Καὶ βότρυας κατ' αὐτὸ,
Καὶ χρυσέας πατέντας,
Ὁμὲ καλῷ Λυαίῳ,

Ἔρωτα, καὶ Βάθυλλον.

15.

Ω Δ Η

IH'.

Εἰς τὸ αὐτό.

Κ Αλλιτεχνά, μοι τόουσον
ΕἴαρΘ. κύπελλον ἡδύ.

Τα

Pleiades were the Daughters of Atlas, the Son of Japetus or Neptune, and Pleione the Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Mnafeas tells us, that Atlas had fifteen Daughters; five of which having mourn'd themselves to Death for their Brother Hyas, who was kill'd in Hunting by a Lion, were chang'd into Stars, and call'd Hyades; that feven of the remaining ten flew themselves thro' Grief, for the Lofs of their Sifters, and were therefore call'd Pleiades, because the Majority agreed in the Action. But Pherecydes Athenienfis fays, they were the Nurses of Bacchus, and that Jupiter, to reward their Service,