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Show [ rs ] " Firft on that bed your infant form was prefs'd, " Born by my throes, and nurtured at my breaft."-1 30 ' Back as from death he fprung, with wild amaze Fierce on the fair he fix' d his ardent gaze; Dropp' d on one knee, his frantic arms outfpread, And fl:ole a guilty glance toward the bed ; Then breath'd from quivering lips a whifper'd vow, 135 And bent on heaven his pale repentant brow ; " Thus, thus!" he cried, and plung' d the furious dart, And life and love guih' d mingled from his heart. The fell SrLENE, and her :fifl:ers fair, Skill' din defl:ruction, fpread the vifcous fnare. I 40 The harlot-band ten lofty bravoes fcreen, And, frowning, guard the magic nets unfeen. Silene. I. 139. Catchfly. Three females and ten males inhabit each flower; the vifcous material, which furroun~s the fialks under the flowers of this plant, and of the Cucubalus Otites, is a curious contrivance to prevent various infeCl:s from plundering the honey, or devouring the feed. In the Dion:ra Mufcipula there is a fiill more wonder• ful contrivance to prevent the depredations of infects: the leaves arc armed with long teeth, like the antenn<e of infects, and lie fpread upon the ground round the fiem; and |