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CANTO III.] The Median emp'ror dream'd his daughter Had pist all Asia under water, And that a vine, sprung from her haunches, O'erspread his empire with its branches; And did not soothsayers expound it, As after by th' event he found it? When Cæsar in the senate fell, Did not the sun eclips'd foretell; And in resentment of his slaughter, Look'd pale for almost a year after? Augustus having, b' oversight, Put on his left shoe 'fore his right, Had like to have been slain that day, By soldiers mutin'ing for pay. Are there not myriads of this sort, Which stories of all times report? Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our Synod calls Humiliations,