Ovid's Metamorphoses: translated by eminent persons. Published by Sir Samuel Garth.

  • Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Date:
1794
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Credit: Ovid's Metamorphoses: translated by eminent persons. Published by Sir Samuel Garth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    715 “ But I was lov’d; ask Pallas if I lie; “ Tho’ Pallas hate me now, she won’t deny : i( For I, whom in a feather’d shape you view, } Was once a maid (by heav’n the story’s true) > «* A blooming maid, and a king’s daughter too, ' “ A croud of lovers own’d my beauty’s charms; ** My beauty was the cause of all my harms; 72© “ Neptune, as on his shores I wont to rove, I ** Observ’d me in my walks, and fell in love. 44 He made his courtship, he confess’d his pain, “ And offer’d force when all his arts were vain; 44 Swift he pursu'd : I ran along the strand, 44 Till, spent and weary’d on the sinking sand, 44 I shriek’d aloud, with cries I fill’d the air 44 Togods and men: nor god nor man was t 44 A virgin goddess heard a virgin’s pray’i 44 For, as my arms I lifted to the skies, 730 44 I saw black feathers from my fingers rise ; 44 I strove to fling my garment on the ground; 44 My garment turn’d to plumes, and girt me rc&ncfc “ My hands to beat my naked bosom try; 1 “ Nor naked besom now nor hands had U 735 “ Lightly 1 tript, nor weary as before <c Sunk in the sand, but skim’d along the shore; Till, rising on my wings, I was preferred “ To be the chaste Minerva’s virgin bird: e< Prefer’d in vain! I now am in disgrace.- 74© Nyctimene the owl enjoys my place. 3 : air 1 as there: V Y’r' J