Few eyes fall'n light adore: yet fame shall keep
Her name alive, when others filent fleep;

While men have ears to hear, eyes to look back, and weep.
XXXIII.

And tho' the curs (which whelpt and nurs'd in Spain,

Learn of fell Geryon & to fnarl and brawl)

Have vow'd and strove her virgin tomb to stain ;
And grin, and foam, and rage, and yelp, and bawl :
Yet shall our Cynthia's high triumphing light

Deride their howling throats, and toothless spite; And fail thro' heav'n, whilft they fink down in endless night. XXXIV.

So is this ISLAND's lower region:

Yet, ah! much better is it fure than fo. But my poor reeds, like my condition, (Low is the fhepherd's ftate, my fong as low)

Mar what they make :-but now in yonder fhade Reft we, while funs have longer shadows made: See how, our panting flocks run to the cooler glade.

In heathen mythology, a fabulous giant with three heads.

CANTO IV:

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1.

HE fhepherds in the fhade their hunger feasted,
With fimple cates, fuch as the country yields;
And while from scorching beams fecure they rested,
The nymphs, dispers'd along the woody fields,

Pull'd from their stalks the blushing strawberries,
Which lurk clofe fhrouded from high looking eyes;
Shewing that fweetnefs, oft both low, and hidden lies.
II.

But when the day had his meridian run

Between his highest throne and low declining;

Thirfil again his wonted task begun,

Th' attentive audience his fides entwining.

The middle province next this lower stands,

Where th' ISLE's heart-city spreads his large commands, Leagu'd to the neighbour towns with fure and friendly bands.

III.

Such as that ftar, which fets his glorious chair

In midft of heaven, and to dead darkness, here
Gives light, and life; fuch is this city fair:
Their ends, place, office, state, so very near,
That thofe wife ancients, from their nature's fight,
And likenefs, turn'd their names, and call'd aright

The fun the great world's heart, the heart the lefs world's

light.

IV.

This middle coaft, to all the ISLE extends
All heat, and life hence it another guard
(Befide these common to the first) defends;
Built whole of maffy ftone, cold, dry, and hard:
Which ftretching round about his circling arms,
Warrants these parts from all external harms;
Repelling angry force, fecuring all alarms.

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V.

But in the front two fair twin-bulwarks rife ;
In th' Arren built for ftrength and ornament;
In Thelu of more ufe, and larger fize;

For hence the young ISLE draws its nourishment:
Here lurking Cupid hides his bended bow;

Here milky fprings in fweeten'd rivers flow;
Which first gave th' INFANT ISLE to be, and then to grow.

VI.

For when the leffer ISLAND (ftill increasing

In Venus' temple) to fome greatness grows,
Now larger rooms, and wider spaces feizing,
It flops the Hepar rivers;-backward flows

The ftream, and to thefe hills bears up his flight,
And in these founts (by fome ftrange hidden might)

Dyes his fair rofy waves into a lily white.

The heart is the feat of heat and life; therefore walled about with the ribs, for more safety.

The breafts, or paps, are given to men for ftrength and ornament; to women for milk.

When the infant grows large, the blood veffels are so oppreffed, that partly through the readiness of the paffage, but especially by the providence of God, the blood turns back to the breaft, and there by a wonderful faculty is turned into milk.

VII.

So where fair Medway down the Kentish dales,
To many towns her plenteous waters dealing,
Lading her banks into wide Thamis falls;
Th' extended main with foaming billows fwelling,
Stops there the sudden stream: her steady courfe
Staggers a while, at length flows back with force;
And with much hafte returns unto its parent fource.
VIII.

These two fairmounts are like two hemifpheres,
Endow'd with goodly gifts and qualities;

Whose tops two little purple hillocks rears,
Much like the poles in heaven's axletrees:
And round about two circling altars gird

In blushing red, the rest in white attir'd,
Like Thracian Hamus looks, which Phabus never fir'd.
IX.

That MIGHTY HAND, in thefe diffected wreaths,
(Where moves our fun) his throne's fair picture gives
The pattern breathlefs, but the picture breathes;
His highest heav'n is dead, our low heav'n lives:
Nor fcorns that LOFTY ONE, thus low to dwell:
Here his best stars he fets, and glorious cell;
And fills with faintly spirits, so turns to heav'n from hell.
X.

About this region round in compass stands

A guard, both for defence, and respiration,

• In the Thorax, or breast, are fixty-five muscles for respiration, or breathing, which is either free or forced: the inftruments of forced breathing are fixty-four, whereof thirty-two distend, and as many contract it.

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The other half to draw in fresher winds : Befide these two, a third of both their kinds, That lets both out, and in; which no enforcement binds.

XI.

This third the merry Diazome we call,

A border-city these two coafts removing;
That like a beam with his cross-builded wall,
Sep'rates the bounds of anger, and of loving;
Keeps from th' heart-city fuming kitchen fires,
And to his neighbour's gentle winds infpires;
Loose when he draws in air, contract when he expires.
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The Diazome of sev'ral matters fram'd:

The first, moift, foft; harder the next, and drier:
His fafhion like the fifh a Raia nam'd;

Fenc'd with two walls, one low, the other higher;
By eight streams water'd; two from Hepar low,
And from th' heart-town as many higher go;
But two twice told, down from the Cephal mountain flow.
XIII.

Here sportful laughter dwells, here ever fitting,
Defies all lumpish griefs, and wrinkled care;
And twenty merry-mates mirth causes fitting,
And smiles, which laughter's fons, yet infants are.
But if this town be fir'd with burnings nigh,
With felf-fame flames high Cephal's towers fry;
Such is their feeling love, and loving sympathy.

The inftrument of free breathing is the Diazome or Diaphragma, which we call the Midriffe, as a wall, parting the heart and liver.

The midriffe dilates itself when it draws in, and contracts itself when it puffs out the air.

The midriffe confifts of two circles, one skinny, the other fleshy; it hath two tunicles, as many veins and arteries, and four nerves.

iHere most men have placed the feat of laughter; it hath much sympathy with

the brain.