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attendants, and became the confident of Jupiter's amours. H loqunoity however displeased Jupiter; and she was deprived the power of speech by Juno, and only permitted to answer the questions which were put to her. Pan had formerly bed one of her admirers, but he never enjoyed her favours. Ecm after she had been punished by Juno, fell in lore with Na cissus. PAGE 2.-STANZA II. How fair NARCISSUS fell. NARCISSUS, was a fair yonth, the son of Cephisus the Riv and of the nymph Liriope; as soon as the child was born, plisus was told by the soothsayer Tiresias, that so long as his a could refrain from the sight of his own face, so long he slou live; when Narcissus came to be of fifteen or sixteen years 315, he was doted upon by divers of the nymphs, and chicfly Echo herself, but he slighted them all; at last being very k and dry, he came to a fountain of clear water to drink, wlie sceing his own face, he was so much enamoured with himse that with grief, because lie could not obtain his love, he pin away and died; and was turned into a flower of his own name PAGE 3.--STANZA IV. To foster Flora's fragrant flowr's. Flora, was supposed to be a common courtesan, who by 1: wantonness, acquired a considerable property, and, when died, bequenthed it to the city of Rome, except a part which s left to le bestowed in an annual celebration of her nativi which was spent in all kinds of excesses. The Romans being, last, ashamed of this rite from the infamy of the patroncss, mi her the godess of flowers; whom they pretended, thus, to w ship, that their plants and trees might flourish in their respe iye seasons with beauty and plenty. Her image was exposed the temple of Castor and Pollux, dressed in a close coat a holding in her right hand the flowers of beans and peas. W these sports were celebrated, the officers or sedilcs scattered bes and other pulse among the people. These games were proclai ed by sound of trumpet as wo find mentioned in Juvenal. PAGE 3.- STANZA IV. Whereon APOLLO's paramours. Apollo, one of the false gods of the heathens, to whom uif