Elfe, fing'd with lightning hadft thou hence been

thrown,

Where chain'd on burning rocks the Titans groan.

Thus he who shakes Olympus with his nod; Then gave to Pæon's care the bleeding God. With gentle hand the balm he pour'd around,

And heal'd th' immortal flesh, and clos'd the wound.
As when the fig's preft juice, infus'd in cream,
To curds coagulates the liquid ftream,

Sudden the fluids fix, the parts combin'd;
Such, and fo foon, th' ætherial texture join’d.
Cleans'd from the dust and gore, fair Hebè dreft
His mighty limbs in an immortal vest.
Glorious he fate, in majefty reftor'd,

Fast by the throne of heaven's fuperior Lord.
Juno and Pallas mount the bleft abodes,
Their task perform'd, and mix among the Gods.

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The Episodes of Glaucus and Diomed, and of Hector and Andromache.

THE Gods having left the field, the Grecians prevail. Helenus, the chief augur of Troy, commands Hector to return to the city, in order to appoint a folemn proceffion of the queen and the Trojan matrons to the temple of Minerva, to entreat her to remove Diomed from the fight. The battle relaxing during the abfence of Hector, Glaucus and Diomed have an interview between the two armies; where coming to the knowledge of the friendship and hospitality paft between their ancestors, they make exchange of their arms. Hector, having performed the the orders of Helenus, prevails upon Paris to return to the battle ;. and taking a tender leave of his wife Andromache, haftens again to the field.

The fcene is first in the field of battle, between the river Simoïs and Scamander, and then changes to Troy.

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OW Heaven forfakes the fight: th' immortals
yield,

To human force and human skill, the field:
Dark fhowers of javelins fly from foes to foes;

Now here, now there, the tide of combat flows;

While Troy's fam'd *streams, that bound the deathful plain,

On either fide run purple to the main.

Great Ajax first to conqueft led the way,

Broke the thick ranks, and turn'd the doubtful day.
The Thracian Acamas his falchion found,
And hew'd th' enormous giant to the ground;

His thundering arm a deadly stroke imprest

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Where the black horse-hair nodde i o'er his creft:
Fix'd in his front the brazen weapon lies,
And feals in endless shades his swimming eyes.
Next Teuthras' fon distain'd the sands with blood, 15
Axylus, hofpitable, rich, and good:

In fair Arifbe's walls (his native place)
He held his feat; a friend to human race.
Faft by the road, his-ever open door
Oblig'd the wealthy, and reliev'd the poor.

*Scamander and Simoïs,

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To ftern Tydides now he falls a prey,
No friend to guard him in the dreadful day!
Breathless the good man fell, and by his fide
His faithful fervant, old Calefius, dy'd.

By great Euryalus was Drefus flain,
And next he lay'd Opheltius on the plain.
Two twins were near, bold, beautiful, and young,
From a fair Naiad and Bucolion sprung:
(Laomedon's white flocks Bucolion fed,
That monarch's firft-born by a foreign bed;
In fecret woods he won the Naiad's grace,

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And two fair infants crown'd his ftrong embrace.)
Here dead they lay in all their youthful charms;
The ruthless victor ftripp'd their fhining arms.
Aftyalus by Polypoetes fell;

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Ulyffes' fpear Pydytes fent to hell;

By Teucer's fhaft brave Aretaön bled,

And Neftor's fon laid stern Ablerus dead ;
Great Agamemnon, leader of the brave,
The mortal wound of rich Elatus gave,

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Who held in Pedafus his proud abode,

And till'd the banks where filver Satnio flow'd.

Melanthius by Eurypylus was flain;

And Phylacus from Leitus flies in vain.
Unblest Adraftus next at mercy lies
Beneath the Spartan fpear, a living prize.
Scar'd with the din and tumult of the fight,
His headlong fteeds precipitate in flight,

Rush'd on a tamarisk's strong trunk, and broke
The fhatter'd chariot from the crooked yoke;

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