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Show [ 70 J ·Each rofeate feat~re fades to livid green- Difguft with face averted ihuts the fcene. ZIO So from his gorgeous throne, which awed the world, The 1nighty Monarch of A:lfyria hurl' d, Sojourn' d with brutes beneath the midnight fl:orm, Changed by avenging Heaven in mind and form. -Prone to the earth He bends his brow fuperb, 2 I 5 Crops the young floret and the bladed herb ; Lolls his red tongue, and fro1n the reedy fide Of :O.ow Euphrates laps the muddy tide. Long eagle plumes his arching neck inveft, Steal round his arms, and clafp his {harpen' d breaft; 2 2 o Dark brinded hairs, in briftling ranks, behind, Rife o'er his back, and rufile in the wind ; r 71 J E'en Beauty pleads in vain with fmiles and tears, Nor Flattery's felf can pierce his pendant ears .. Two Siil:er-Nymphs to Ganges' flowery brink Bend their light fteps, the lucid water drink, Wind through the dewy rice, and nodding canes, (As eight black Eunuchs guard the facred plains), With playful malice watch the fcaly brood, And iliower the inebriate berries on the flood.- 230 Stay in your eryfial chambers, :Giver tribes !' 2 3 5· Turn your bright eyes, and fhun the dangerous bribes; The· tramel'd net with lefs deftruc:tion fweeps Your curling :£hallows, and your azure d·eeps ;· With lefs deceit, the gilded Hy beneath, Lurks the fell hook unfeen,-to tafl:e is death! Clothe his lank fides, his ilirivel' d limbs furround, -Dint your flow eyes, and dull your pearly coat, And human hands with talons print the ground. Drunk on. the waves your languid forms. iliall float, Silent in .ibining troops thet Courtier-throng 2 2 5 1 1 Two Sij!er-Nymphs. ]. 229. Menifpermum, Cocculus. Indian berry. Two houfcs ... Pnrfue their monarch, as he craw s a ong ; ' twelve ma-les. In the female flower there· arc two fl:ylas aAd eight fibments wi~hout a.nthers on their fummits; whi hare called by Linneus eunuchs. See the note on Curcuma. The berry intoxicates fith. Saint Anthony of Padua,. wh,cn :he peo.plc refufcd . to hcar.him, preached to the fifh, and converted them. Ad(lJfon.s T;-avels 10 Italy, |