Category: Poetry
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2. Part 2[11] According to the old Fable, the Rose was at first always white, till Venus, while she was pursuing Adonis, scratched herself with its thorns, and thereby stained it with he...
3. Part 3[18] Apollo having forsaken Clytie for this Nymph; the former, in return, informed Leucothoe’s father of his daughter’s amour with Phœbus. He thereupon buried Leucothoe alive; b...
4. Part 4[23] The juice of this weed was generally supposed to be used in Enchantments—There are however several sorts of it, all of which are not esteemed deadly; but only this mentione...
5. Part 5Hast thou not mark’d them cull with care Some favour’d flow’ret from the rest, To deck the breast, or bind the hair, Of those they priz’d and lov’d the best?