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16 Hence follow’d Arts, each studying with Care, some new Production to delight the Fair. To bright Egeria, Socrates retir’d; His Wisdom grew; but as love inspir’d: Those Rocks and Oaks that such Emotions felt, Were cruel Maids, whom Orpheus taught to melt: Musick and Songs, and ev’ry way to move The ravisht Heart, were Seeds and Plants of Love.


 * The Gods entic’d by so divine a Birth,

Descend from Heav’n, to this New-Heav’n on Earth. Thy Wit, o Mercury, ’s no Defence from Love; Nor, Mars, thy Target; nor thy Thunder, Jove. The mad Immortals, in a thousand Shapes Range the wide Globe; some yield, some suffer Rapes; Invaded, or deceiv’d, not one escapes: The Wife, tho’a bright Goddess, thus gives place To mortal Concubines of fresh Embrace: By such Examples, were we taught to see The Life and Soul of Love is sweet Variety.


 * In those first Times, ere charming Womankind

Reform’d their Pleasures, polishing the Mind, Rude were their Revels, and obscene their Joys, The Broils of Drunkards, and the Lust of Boys: Phœbus laments for Hyacinthus dead; And Juno jealous, storms at Ganymed. Return,