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Show 300 [ 24- ] . Well may'ft thou grieve the gl~Z>rious viaoxi {fme, Tho' much, alas l th' indulgent Shades have lhewn. 0 let me ftill, on this revolving day, A grateful tribute to their mem'ry pay: And to the genius Of _the horn"y gate, ·, L Whofe friendly'pow'r reveals hur certain fate . . . 30 5 Oft, . by abftrufe myil:erious types, are told Thof~t:!hadow· d truths 1nftruCl:ive · dr~a1.;;s unfold. When Media's fleepyftrtonarch faw the Maid A wondrous 'Deluge o'er hii empi~e fpre~d ; How plain that Emblem pointed him the Place 3 r o From whence 1hould iifue his fevere difgrace! L. 303. And to the Genius if tb'cJJorny Gate.] VIRo. lib. vi. Sun( iemin£ fomni port£: quaruiJI alter a fertur Cornea: quri v:risf;rcitisda;ur exitus "'!'bris. Two Gates the filent Ho\1fe or' Sleep adorn : Of polifh'd lv'~:y . this, that of tr'l)lijJarent Hom : True Vifions thro' tranfparent Horn arife; Thro' poli!h'd lv'ry pafs deluding Lyes. Olympia's ,, I . ' DRYDEN. Suetonius reprcfcn,tsAuguflus as a great 9bferyer )loth of his ,own, an~ other People's -'Dreams;. and, that he moil: fre')uently d1re<~l:ed liis Acl:ions, purfuant to their AdmO~lttons. That dunng the Spnng, h1s Dreams were fearful, extravagant,. <>nd vam; the reftot the Year, leis frequent, buttheVilions he then faw more w be<lependedo11. SI!CI. in viM Augufti. ' [ 25 ] O!Jmpia's pregnant womb when Philip feal'd, The myftic dream young Ammon's foul reveal' d. Stamp'd on the wax the Victor Lion ihew'd The warlike genius of the Embryo God. 3 IS Thus has a iigur' d Omen, dark, and deep, To me been painted by the pow'rs of fleep. The fav'rite Bird of Pallas I beheld Search, with unwearied wing; the new-reap' d field : Fatigued, at length, a lurking Moufe he fpies, 320 And eager, to the long-fought quarry flies; Thither, by chance, the Reaper bent his Way, And, with a Wheat-iheaf, whelm' d the trembling prey. Th' Athenian bird his fruil:rate labor mourn'd , Flew from my fight, but foon again return'd, D When, , f(L. 3 ~I' Olympia's pregnaM Womb when Philip foal' d.] ' Philip of Macedon ', 'ao;~~Im~ a~ef he was marned, dre~m'd that he feal'd up his Wife's BeJ!y with , d ~· o e mprelli_on, as he fancied, was the Figure of a Lion. Some inter' ~rete t IS as a Warmng; to Philip to look narrowly to his Wife; but Anfta11• , e: of 'l'e~ejfus, confidenng how unufual it was to Jeal up any thing that was , D pty, a ured him, that the Q!Jeen was with Child of a Hoy, who would one · ay prove as flout and courageous as a Lion.' Plutarch's Life of Alexander. |