Skill'd in the laws of fecret fate above, Tis thine the feeds of future war to know, He views his food, but dreads, with lifted eye, 840 845 850 Propitious hear our pray'r, O Pow'r divine! 855 And on thy hofpitable Argos fhine, Whether the ftyle of Titan please thee more, 840 Parcarum praenĉffe minas, fatumque quod ultra eft, Te viridis Python, Thebanaque mater ovantem 855 860 Or great Ofiris, who first taught the swain Frugiferum, feu Perfei fub rupibus antri THE FAB LE O F DRYOPE. S H E faid, and for her loft Galanthis fighs, DIXIT 5 10 IXIT: et, admonitu veteris commota ministrae, Ingemuit; quam fic nurus eft adfata dolentem : Te tamen, o genitrix, alienae fanguine veftro Rapta movet facies. quid fi tibi mira fororis Fata meae referam ? quanquam lacrymaeque dolorque Impediunt, prohibentque loqui. fuit unica matri (Me pater ex alia genuit) notiflima formâ NOTES. 10 DRYOPE.] Upon the occafion of the death of Hercules, his Mother Alcmena recounts her misfortunes to Iole, who answers with a relation of thofe of her own family, in particular the Transformation of her fifter Dryope, which is the subject of the enfuing Fable. 3 |