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HEN Cupid did his grandsire Jove intreat To form some Beauty by a new receipt, Jove sent, and found, far in a country scene, Truth, innocence, good nature, look serene: From which ingredients first the dextrous boy Pick'd the demure, the awkward, and the coy. The Graces, from the court did next provide Breeding, and wit, and air, and decent pride: These Venus cleans from every spurious grain Of nice, coquet, affected, pert, and vain. Jove mix'd up all, and the best clay employed; Then call'd the happy composition Floyd.

HŒBUS, now shortening every shade, Up to the northern tropick came, And thence beheld a lovely maid, Attending on a royal dame.

The god laid down his feeble rays, Then lighted from his glittering coach; But fenc'd his head with his own bays, Before he durst the nymph approach. Under