FABLES. 21 Fab. VIII. Of the Mountain in labour. HArk, how the Mountain groans, what won d'rous Births Committing Inceft with his Mother Earthy Did mighty W Tyfhon get! His Sifter Fame, Heightning the Expectation, did proclaim 'Twas with Rebellion big; the hopeful Heir Should pull proud Jove from his u/urped Chair; The Starry Towers by Mortals mould be ftorrn'd, And the Gods fculk in W feveral Shapes transform'd. Poets and Painters, nay Hiftorians too, As near as they in modefty could doe, Draw to behold the IiTue5, and to fee A Monfter might beyond all Fidion be. Come you long-fided Widdows, fix or feven, Whofe Husbands fell in the late war 'gainft Heaven, And help the labouring Mountain , quickly come And mollify her Adamantine VV^omb. While thus it labours, Fame divulg'd abroad, The Hill was eas'd of her prodigious Loid. Fear tells {he faw, and th'Infants fhape describes; Not all the Covenanting Brethren's Tribes, That Heaven aflaulted, could fuch Forces boaft : This bigger was than that Gigantick Hoaft. This could more ponderous than his Mother peife A Hill on every ringer : Hercules In Cradle (c) ftrangl'd Serpents; but this cm Crack twixt his nail, Ironfide Leviathan : So much it grew in every hour, that foon The Gold and Silver of the Sun and Moon Would ( ) Typhon was a Giant, feign'd to be i he fon of Err bus and Terra : A m- mtion aft-ending as all other vices from Hell.ofwhichhewasaType. He was ['id to reach Heaven with his Heads, beaufe of his afpiring thounlus:and to have forced J.fL from Heaven, be-iK'ilt by ambitioiis Spiri[?Priixcsare oiitn dus-d from their Thrones. (*) When 7}-4m raiiM- the 7lr gainft Heaven/ the Gods fled into E)pt, concealing themftlvs forfc.r under the ihapes of Beaftt.- which 0-vid has elegantly defcrib'di:' ', .-.-. unmfhfi Emij[mq*t a de fede Typhoea Tngafug^c. How Typhon, from Earth's gloomy en-Struck all the Gods with fear, who fled Till Egy'pt's fcorched foil the weary hides, ] And wealthy Nile, who in feven chan nels glides, When fove did turn himfelf into a From whence the Horns of Libytn HammoH came, Sac'U a Goat, Afdlo was a Crow, 1?ow C"' ?W''wifcaCwof Venus a Fifh, a Stork did Hermes hide. And mil her Harp unto her Voice an! ply'd. *- This was an invention of the Cre-cxBsia derifionof the Egyptian, jvko adored Beads for the benefit they did to?,oisraidtohavefenttwoSer-pents unto Hercules to deflroy him in his cradle, both which he firannied Ovid. Ten, fernnt giminos fre/fifi teuaciter Clm temr in cuis]*m Jove dignus You in your hands ftrangled two Snakes they fay, When in your Cradle You foves IfTue lay.