Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley.

Date:
1720
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [4] ► chat he might have foine Coadjutor. His Cafe being fairly laid before the Delphic God ,* and he confidering by his Fore-knowledge of Things, that Poetry would foon fpread beyond the Bounds of Greece into Italy it felt, where would a rife Bards worthy of Parnajjm, he gave Pe- gafm Power to beget a Race of Pegafiades; but yet, confining the Number to be employ’d, to the Nine Mufes* this young Race, without re¬ gard to the Order of the God, went on beget- ing the like, till Parnajfm fwarm’d with the Breed,* who, not being upon the Eftablifhment, were glad to obey the Call of every Poet after, and fly Hackney for all that would employ them, j but were like all other Hackney Jades, very flow of fpeed, and perpetually humbling on the Road ; nor could they ever bring their Riders to the facred Kill of Parnajjm, but, through devious and roundabout Paths, fet them down in the Low-lands, at feme Diftance from it, while only thofe Pegafiades that belong’d to the Mufes and Apollo bore their chofen Burthens up to each Summit. But the Inundation of Barbarifin having over¬ run all Greece, Apollo and the Mufes were fain to remove their Seat, and chofe to fix it to thofe happy Regions, where they were moil likely to find no Difturbance for the future. The Earth, in the Opinion of the befl Geo¬ graphers, riles five and twenty Miles above the reft of the terraqueous Globe under the ^Equa- tor; upon this Eminence are plac’d the Moun¬ tains of the Moon ; among which there is one that riles very high, and with a double Head. This Apollo and the Mufes chofe for their facred Retreat, and the Reception of all thofe illuftrious Bards, who
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