My friend young Wardle has fallen in love with a very beautiful cafetière at Lyons', and spends a great part of his time in the café, at which this nymph administers, and looks at her, sighs, looks and sighs again.

Think you that a descendant of the mighty Puru could fix his affections on an unlawful object? Though, as men say, the offspring of the sage, The maiden to a nymph celestial owes Her being, and by her mother left on earth, Was found and nurtured by the holy man As his own daughter, in this hermitage.

2. The beasts do skip, The sweet birds sing; The wood-nymphs dance, The echoes ring.

" Milton, P. L., B. ii, l. 2. 2. "Come, nymph demure, with mantle blue.

Who praises Lesbia's eyes and feature, Must call her sister, awkward creature; 10 For the kind flattery's sure to charm, When we some other nymph disarm.

Soon as he saw the lovely nymph expire, The pile made ready, and the kindling fire, With sighs and groans her obsequies he kept, And, if a god could weep, the god had wept.

The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.

Their meetings are interrupted by the advent of winter, but he finds her again at the feast of Venus, when shepherds, fauns, and nymphs forgather at the temple of the goddess.

At the end of one of those locks was the throbbing heart of Barton Booth, which he had completely lost in watching the auburn hair and the poetic movements of the coryphée: "But now the flying fingers strike the lyre, The sprightly notes the nymph inspire.

Or when thy Nymph laments, what Eyes are dry?

So just as he had told the Queen Patmadhavrani, he told Queen Chimadevrani all the rites which he had seen the serpent-maidens from Patala and the wood-nymphs perform.

A nymph presides, nor practised in the chase, Nor skilful at the bow, nor at the race; Of all the blue-eyed daughters of the main, The only stranger to Diana's train: Her sisters often, as 'tis said, would cry, 'Fie, Salmacis, what always idle!

With numbers he the flying nymph pursues, With numbers such as Phoebus' self might use!

the fainting nymph repeats; Seeks the low dell, and in the sultry shade 370 Invokes in vain the Naiads to her aid.

Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th' instructive hours they passed, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

I could invite the wolf, my cruel guest, And play unmov'd, while he on all should feast: I cou'd endure that very swain out-run, Out-threw, out-wrestled, and each nymph shou'd shun The hapless Strephon.