But in the meantime, the sons of men deviated from their native innocence; vice and ruin over-ran the earth with giant strides; and Astrea with her train of celestial visitants, forsook their polluted abode; Love alone remained, having been stolen away by Hope, who was his nurse, and conveyed by her to the forest of Arcadia, where he was brought up amongst the shepherds.

Without doubt it is the Nosce Teipsum so much admired by King James, printed 1519, and 1622, mentioned by Wood; to which were added by the same hand: Hymns of Astrea in acrostic verse; and Orchestra, or a poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing, in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Woers, containing 131 stanzas unfinished.

The stage how loosely does Astrea tread, Who fairly puts, all characters to bed.

"Arthur's Bower" Asbury, J.V. See Letters. and Emma Isola and Lamb as Ariel Asses, old poem on Astrea Australia, Lamb on Authors and Publishers, Lamb on Ayrton, William.

After hearing more than a satiety of these illustrations, the youth beholds the Genius of the Isle, supported by Astrea and Reason, exposing the fraud of the Enchanted Well to the dismay of the greedy rabble.

The "Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" she esteemed as one of the finest things of our time; and of "Astrea" she said,"Nobody in England can write the glorious resonant metre of Dryden like that strain, nowadays.

Astrea Reddux welcomed the returning Charles; Annus Mirabilis commemorated a year of fire and victories, Besides these he wrote many dramas in verse, a number of translations, and some shorter poems, of which the odes are the most remarkable.

The stage now loosely does Astrea tread.

She thought of nothing but the loves of Astrea, and heard nothing but the imaginary songs of contending Damons.

When Celadon would weep; His lost Astrea fair, To Lignon he would creep,

You did not prepare me for so exquisite a scene; I conclude it is from the last chapter of the Astrea.

Astrea stellulata ?

There is a poem by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke, preserved in Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, and there headed 'A Dialogue between two Shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astrea.'