DRYOPE IN ARBOREM. DIXIT IXIT: et, admonitu veteris commota minif- Ingemuit; quam fic nurus eft adfata dolentem : IO Impediunt, prohibentque loqui. fuit unica matri Me pater ex alia genuit) notiffima forma Oechalidum Dryope: quam virginitate carentem, Vimque Dei paffam, Delphos Delonque tenentis, Excipit NOTES. DRYOPE.] Upon occafion of the death of Hercules, his Mother Alcmena recounts her misfortunes to Iole, who an fwers THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.. SHE 5 HE faid, and for her loft Galanthis fighs, When the fair Confort of her fon replies. Since you a fervant's ravish'd form bemoan, And kindly figh for forrows not your own, Let me (if tears and grief permit) relate A nearer woe, a fifter's ftranger fate. No nymph of all Oechalia could compare For beauteous form with Dryope the fair, Her tender mother's only hope and pride, (Myself the offspring of a fecond bride.) This Nymph comprefs'd by him who rules the day, Whom Delphi and the Delian ifle obey, ΙΟ NOTES. Andraemon fwers with a relation of those of her own family, in particular the Transformations of her fifter Dryope, which is the fubject of the enfuing Fable. P. 15 Excipit Andraemon; et habetur conjuge felix. Eft lacus, acclivi devexo margine formam Littoris efficiens: fummum myrteta coronant. Veneret huc Dryope fatorum nefcia; quoque Indignere magis, Nymphis latura coronas. Inque finu puerum, qui nondum impleverat, an num, Dulce ferebat onus; tepidique ope lactis alebat. 20 Nefcierat foror hoc; quae cum perterrita retro 35 Ire, Andraemon lov'd; and, blefs'd in all thofe charms That pleas'd a God, fucceeded to her arms. 14 A lake there was, with fhelving banks around, Whofe verdant fummit fragrant myrtles crown'd. These shades, unknowing of the fates, she fought, And to the Naiads flow'ry garlands brought; Her smiling babe (a pleasing charge) she prest Within her arms, and nourish'd at her breaft. 20 Not distant far a watry Lotos grows, 25 The spring was new, and all the verdant boughs The trembling tree with fudden horror fhook. 30 And |