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 62 NOTES. hatred.{\He presides over pleasure as well as lore. He is scribed to be naked, to shew the power of beauty requires embellishment. And his having a fillet over his eyes, not a indicates that love is blind, but that he wounds all mank without having the power of aiming his shafts at any particu individual. He is called Cupid from Cupiendo, which signi. the desire with which all his votaries are possessed to attain object of their affection. His chief emblems are the bow in hand, the quiver on his shoulders, and the torch in his hand. His wings denote the speed with which love assails the hun brcast, whenever an object is presented that is capable of ex ing this universal passion. His being described as an urc is to shew that love requires more government than any pass, that heaven has rendered the heart man capable of feeling, PAGE 7.-STANZA XII. As ICARUS with borrow'd flight. Icarus, a son of Dædalus, who, with his father, filed w wings from Crete to escape the resentment of Mitos. I flight being too high proved fatal to him, and the sun mck the wax which cemented his wings, and he fell into that part the Ægean sea which was called after his name. PAGE 7.-STANZA XII. As foolish PHÆTON by suit. PHÆTON was the son of Sol and Clymene, who taking occa- sion by his father's rash promise, entreated and obtained of hi leavo to guide his chariot for one day; but for want of streng and experience in him, the horses grew unruly and ran so ne the earth, that had not Jupiter struck him down with his thu derbolt, the earth had been burned up. PAGE 10.-STANZA XVIII, Like Dido, CUPIDO. Dido, called also Elisa, a daughter of Belus king of Tyr who married Sichæus, or Sicharbas, her uncle, who was priest Hercules. Pygmalion, who succeded to the throne of Ty after Belus, murdered Sichæus, to get possession of the immen