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Ercury had a Great Mind to try if Tireias was o Famous a Diviner as the World took him for, or not. So he went and Stole Tireias's Oxen; and Order’d the Matter, to be in the Company with Tireias, as upon Bus'nes by the By, when the News hould be brought him of the Los of his Oxen. Mercury went to Tireias in the Shape of a Man, and the Tidings came as Mercury had Coatriv’d it: Upon This, he took Mercury up to a High Tower, Hard by, and bad him look Well about him, and tell him what Birds he aw. Why, ays Mercury, I ee an Eagle upon Wing there, that takes her Coure from the Right-hand to the Left. That Eagle (ays Tireias) is nothing to Our Purpoe; wherefore Pray look again once. Mercury tood Gazing a while, and then told Tireias of a Crow he had Dicover'd upon a Tree, that was One while looking up into the. Air, and Another while Down towards the Ground: That's enough; (ays Tireias) for This Motion of the Crow, is as much as to ay, I do Appeal to Heaven, and to Earth, that the Man that is Now with Tireias, can help him to his Oxen again if He Pleaes.