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every Hue, and Rofes without Thorns. Another Side: fhady Grottos, and Caves of cool Recefs, over which the fpreading Vine laid forth her purple Grapes, and gently crept with her increafing and wanton Branches; mean while the murmuring Waters fall difper fed down the flope Hills, or elfe unite their Streams in a Lake, that as it were holds a Mirror to the Bank grown over with fweet Myrtle. The Birds apply their Choir with yernal Airs, which breathing the Smell of the Fields and Groves, make Mufick in the trembling Leaves, while Nature, attended by the Seafons and the Hours, led on a continual Spring: -Not that fair Field of ENNA () where PROSERPINE (m) gathering Flowers was ravifh'd by PLUTO, which caufed CERES all that Pain to feek her through -the World; nor that fweet Grove of DAPHNE, by the River ORONTES (n), and the infpired Spring of CASTALIA (0) might by any Means be compar'd to this to abr2 besed on

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inval at rebar SaloƆ quibriv 2 (1) Enna; Chalapbæn, literas x other Months below. Of A Garden and Fountain, Enna,the Rape of Proferpina, See is the fame as Eden, in the Lan- Pindar, Ode I. guage of the Phoenicians, which -they borrowed from Mofes, Gen ii. 8. A most pleasant Field in the Heart of Sicily, abounding withSprings, Fruits, and Flowers. There was a City, a Temple of Ceres, and a fine Grove: And out of it Pluto ftole and carried off Proferpine into Hell.

(m) Proferpine; Lat. i. e. Creeping out. The Daughter of -Jupiter and Ceres, ravifhed by Pluto. Her Mother Ceres went to Hell to get her released; but because the had tafted a Pome granate in Pluto's Orchard, J piter could do no more, than give her Leave to accompany her fix Months above; and Plu

This Fable hath nothing else in it, than that the Corn, Fruits, & lie fix Months in the Ground, then creep out of it, and flourish fix Months above it; and Ceres was an Inventrefs or Improveress of Hufbandry, &c. The Poets make her the Queen of Hell.

(n) Orontes Gr. Lat. i. e. Rapid. The largest River in Syria, rifing on M. Lebanon, washing many Cities in its Course; it runs by and thro' Antioch into the Mediterranean Sea..

(9) Caftalia; Arab. i. e. A purling Stream. A fine Spring at the Root of Parnaffus, facred to the Mufes: Because the plea

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PARADISE OF EDEN; nor that Ifland of NYSA (p) furrounded by the River TRITON (q), where CHAM (r), the youngest Son of NOAH, (whom the Gentiles call AMMON (S) and LYBIAN JOVE) hid AMALTHEA () and her youthful Son BACCHUS (2), from his Step-mother RHEA; nor could the Mountain AMARA (x) be compar'd to PARADISE, where

fant Sound of it gliding down
that Hill, elevated the Imagina-i.
tion. Here is another of this
Name by the Grove of Daphne
at Antioch, which foretold Ha-
drian's Advancement to the Em-
pire.

(p) Nyfa; Heb. i. e. A Ban-
ner or Refuge. A City of Ara,
bia, within the Ile of Nyfa, up--
To the River Triton, where Bac
cbus was nurfed, as they report.
This Fable took its Original from
that Hiftory related in Exod xvii.
15. where Mafes built an Altar
to Jehovah Niffi, Hebe. The
Lord is my Banner, upon the Vic-
tory over Amalek: For Bacchus
is Mofes among the Heathens.
Hence Bacchus was called alfo
Dionyfius, i. e. God of Nyfa, or
-the Nyfa of Bacchus.

(q) Triton; Arab. i. e. A Paflure. A River in Africa, which iffues out of the Lake Tri: ton into the Mediterranean Sea, over-against the leffer Syrtis, and divides Lybia into two equal Parts. Now Rio de Capo.

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(r) Cham, or Ham; Heb. ie. Heat or Blacknefs; the third and youngest Son of Noah, Gen. ix. 24. And Jupiter among the : Gentiles. In the firft Divifion of the Earth, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, and all Africa fell to his

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Ammon, or Hammon's Heb. e. Hrat. Another Name of Cham, whom the Old Egyptians and Grecians worshipped under this Denomination. His Temple and famous Oracle flood in Cyre. ne, on the Weft Side of Egypt, and the Defarts of Lybid,

(t) Amalthea;; Chald. i. e. A Nurfe Gr. i. e. very rich or multiplying Daughter of Meiffus, King of Crete, a Mikrefs and Nurfe of Jupiter, which fed him with Goat's Milk and Honey; and Mother of Bacchus, Jupiter gave her a Horn of Plenty, which supplied every Thing.

(u) Bacchus; Heb. Barchus, i. e. The Son of Chus. The Natural Son of Jupiter by Amalthea, (others fay) by Semele, which may be the fame Woman by a different Name. He firft planted Vines and made Wine : Therefore he was esteemed the God of Wine.

(x) Amara, or Ambara, Heb. and Ethiopic; for the latter has a near Retemblance to the former Language; for Example, Abinu in the Heb. is our Father; Aband in the Ethiopic is the fame; fo they call their Archbishop. Amara is a Province under the Equinoctial, and one of the Kingdoms of Abyf.nia,

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the Kings of ABASSINIA () guard their Children, (tho' by fome fuppofed to be the very Place) under the Equinoctial Line, and by the Head of NILE, encompaffed with fhining Rocks, a whole Day's Jour ney high; but in Reality far remote from this AssyRIAN Garden, where SATAN without any Pleasure beheld all Delight, all kind of living Creatures ftrange to him, and quite new to his Sight.

Two of Shape far more noble than the reft, upright and tall, erect like Gods, cloathed with native Honour and in naked Majefty, feem'd Lords of all, and feem'd worthy to be fo; for in their divine Looks fhone the Image of their glorious Maker, Truth, Wifdom and Sanctitude, pure and fevere, (fevere, but plac'd in true filial Freedom) whence comes true Authority in MEN; though they did not feem equal, as their Sex was not alike: He was form'd for Valour and Contemplation, the for Softness and fweet attracting Grace; he only for GoD, but the for GoD and him: His fair large Forehead and elevated Eye declared abfolute Rule, and his brown Hair, round from his parted Forehead hung curling, but not beneath

or Upper Ethiopia, almost in the Middle of it, on the South. There is a Mountain of the fame Name, about ninety M. in Com. pafs, a Day's Journey high, and encompaffed with Rocks, with only one Entrance to it. On the Top are many beautiful Palaces, wherein the Emperor's Children are educated, and the younger Sons kept 'till they die, that they may not disturb the Government.

(y) Abaffinia: from Abaffeni; Arab. A fcattered People; an antient People of Arabia, near Sabea, of the Pofterity of Jak

tan, who fettled afterwards in Ethiopia Superior; and there erected a vaft Empire of twenty. fix or thirty diftinct Kingdoms. The Portuguese discovered this Empire to the Europeans, A. D. 1500. And the Dutch call it the Country of Prefter John from Unchan Jahannan, one of the Emperors of it, about 4. D. 1200. The upper Ethiopia upon the Red Sea and the Perfan Ocean, on the East Side of Africa. The Inhabitants are all black, and for the moft Part Christians.

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his broad Shoulders: She wore her unadorned fair Hair, loose as a Veil, down to her flender Waist, but waved in wanton Ringlets as the Vine curls its Tendrils, which implied Subjection, but required with gentle Government, and by him best received when yielded by her with coy Submiffion, a modeft Pride, and a fweet, reluctant, yet amorous Delay: Nor were those mysterious Parts hid which MEN now conceal; then was not guilty and dishoneft Shame of Nature's Works (the Name of Honour but difhonourable) bred from Sin, how has it troubled all MANKIND with mere Shews of feeming pure, inftead of being fo? and banished from MAN the greateft Happinefs of his Life, his native Simplicity and spotless Innocence? So they paffed on naked, nor ftrove to Than the Sight of GOD or the Angels, for they thought no Evil: Hand in Hand they paffed along, lovelier than any Pair that ever fince met in the Embraces of Love; ADAM more excellent in Form than any of his Sons yet born, and Eve fairer than any of her Daughters.

UNDER the Shade of a Bower that ftood on a Green, the Trees whispering foftly, by a fresh Fountain's Side, they fat them down, and after no more Toil of their fweet Gardening Labour, than ferved to recommend the fweet Air and make Eafe more pleafant, and wholesome Thirft and Appetite more grateful, they began to eat of the Fruits of the Garden for Supper, delicious Fruits, which the loaded Boughs yielded them; as they fat leaning along the Side of the foft downy Bank, fprinkled with Flowers, they chewed the favoury Pulp, and then in the Rind, as often as they were thirfty, fcooped up the brimming Stream; nor was there wanting endearing Smiles, gentle Purpose, nor youthful Dalliance, as befeems a fair Couple bound in the happy nuptial League, and alone as they were. About them all the Beasts of the

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Earth played wantonly, (though fince that grown wild). Beafts of all Chace, in Wood or Wilderness, Den or Foreft; the Lion fporting about ramped up, and inhis Paw dandled the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces,, and Leopards, played before them; the unweildy Elephant ufed all his Might to make them Mirth, and twisted about his limber Trunk; the fly, clofe, infinuating Serpent, twisted his Train in many a Fold, and unobferved gave Proof of his fatal Subtilty, o-, thers of the Beafts couched upon the Graís, and now filled with Pasture, fat gazing or lying down, and chewing the Cud; for the Sun was declined, and hafting with fwift Career to the Ocean Islands, and on the other Side of Heaven the Stars that introduced the Evening arofe; when SATAN, who all this While ftood gazing as at firft, at length fcarcely recovered Power of Speech as follows:

OH Hell! what do my Eyes with Sorrow and Grief behold! Creatures of another World advanced into our Room of Blifs; perhaps earth-born, and not Spirits, yet to bright heavenly Spirits little inferior; whom my Thoughts purfue with Wonder, and whom I could love, fo lively the divine Refemblance fhines in them, and fuch Grace the Hand that made them hath beftowed upon their Form. Ah gentle Pair! little do you think how near your Change approaches, when all these Delights will vanifh, and deliver you up to Mifery; more Mifery by as much as now your Taste of Joy is more; now happy, but that Happinefs too ill fecured to continue long, and this high Seat, your Heaven, too ill defended, to keep out fuch a Foe as is entered now; yet no purpofed Foe to you, whom I could pity thus unguarded, though I myfelf am unpitied. I feek a League with you and mutual Amity, fo close and strait, that henceforward I must dwell with you, or elfe you with me: Perhaps my Dwelling-Place may not delight your Senfes

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