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A mighty billow lifted to the skies;

And with the billow, at the third great sweep

Of mountain surge, the sea gave up a bull,

Monster of aspect fierce, whose bellowings

Filled all the earth, that echoed back the roar

In tones that made us shudder."

The terrified horses become unmanageable; and though

until Hippolytus is dragged and dashed against the rocks, and lies a broken and bleeding body from which the spirit is rapidly fleeting. He is borne into his father's presence, torn, mangled, and bleeding, to die. But Theseus, still crediting Phædra's false letter, rejoices in his son's fate, although he alone believes him guilty. The messenger, indeed, bluntly tells the king that he is deceived:—

Diana, it may seem to the reader, is far from being a help to her devoted friend and worshipper in his time of trouble. The cause she assigns for her inability to save him gives a curious insight into the