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Sect. bathed and anointed her with ambrosial EsXII. sence, arrayed her in a shining fragrant Robe, c"— and accompanied her invisible to where Anchises had pitched his Tent. She found him alone at the Door, playing on a Lute (the rest having followed the wandering Flocks) and appeared to him like a spotless Virgin, in Shape and Stature. He took her for one of the In habitants of Heaven ; but she told him he was mistaken, That she was but a Woman, born of mortal Race; P.^og/y)

Fam'd Otreus was my Father, if by chance You ever heard his Name; whose powerful Sway Fair Phrygia owns, with all herJlately Towns. Your Language and our own Ifully know ? For in a Tro]an-Houje my Fondling Nurse Fed me a little Child, kept long from Home So that Ispeak your Language and our own. Those who are curious to know what hap pened afterward, will find the Sequel of thc^ Adventure in Homers Hymn to Venus ; and if they cannot consult the Original, in the* excellent Translation of it by Mr. Congreve.

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