The Hesperian apples of the Cyprian dame
Gave to the nimble youth a victors fame:
Who close pursu'dpursued by the Swift virgins Speed
Throws one in view, that soeso heehe might proceed:
Hee'sHe's gone, SheeShe after, fleet or more than wind
Whilst with another lure heehe affects her mind,
Diverting once againeagain the DamsellsDamsels chase;
But hold, they neither yet have lost the race:
On on they runnerun, the youth a third lets fall,
And then Atalanta yeildsyields herselfeherself and all.
Hippomenes the Strength of Sulphur is,
SheeShe wife of Hermes is o'recomeovercome by his:
Who mixing louelove in Cybels sacred place,
Mov'dMoved her chastchaste soulesoul to wrath by that disgrace,
Transmuting in revenge their formallformal state
Into a LyonLion and a LyonsLions mate.
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This princely chase the better to pourtrayportray,
My Muse describes it in a triple way,
Depicting first the Speed retarding fruit,
One runnerun before, the third in hotthot pursuit:
Your eyes with ease these Emblems may behold,
But reason must the mysteryesmysteries unfold:
These things I've made familiar, that the mind
The treasures here inclosdenclosed may seekeseek and find:
What wealth i'thin the world or health in medicine lyeslies
These two united LyonsLions doedo comprizecomprise.