FABLES, 137 When from the Scene a nimble Hermes /brings With his Caduceus, golden Shoos, and Wings, Conduding in a Dynaflie of antient Kings That had been Mummey many thoufand years Beforc,our Authors fay, Adam the World began : Each in his hand a mighty Scepter bears, And from their Heads difplay Twelve Silver Rays, fhot from a Golden Sun. Like demy-Gods the Apes began to move, WSemele faw fuch a Ma/eftick Jove : The Men admire, the taken Ladies fire,with love. When one that knew what befi: would pleafe the King A Mufs ot Nuts did 'mong thefe Hero's- fling; Which fuddenly did all to great diforder bring. Figures they quit, and alter fbon their pace, And fcambling run to feife Their moft beloved Nuts, Refpe&ing not the Majefty of place : Thefe would Kings Palaces Forfake to reign in well flor'd Squirrels Huts. At laft the Dancing Kings began to rage. Scuffling for Prey, old Princes feeming fage, All Laws of Revels brake,and in fierce War engage. I hey fight,they fcratch,they tumble o'r and o'r, Their Masking Sutes are all in Mamocks tore, The Stage with green, Gloth '{preacL, is now a Field of Their Apjh Mafters taken with, the Sport, (gore. Among the thickeft run, Where fcrambling down they fall: (^) Seattle was perfuadid by the fraud oifunojn the form of herNurfe, to ask a boon of Jupiter ( which he rafhly confirm-d with an Oath) that he would approach to her in the fame manner that he did to Juno, with all the F.nfignsof his Regality ,who burns in his embracements, as not b:ing able to endure the divine brightnefs Ovid in his Metamorphofis. Tef.lettmpkaT, TJw'mw'/Ww Damih'itetalem. ------then Semele faid, Suchbetome.O^w.aswhenthTn- Of7ofummon you to Venus Rites. Her mouth he fought to flop- but now that breath Wasmix'd with air which fentenced her death. Lightning c'her Father's houfe fove But (ah!) a mortal body could not brook Ethereal tumults. Her fuccefs (he And in thofe fo defir'd embracementt burnt. ny which Fable the Antients taught that rhofe who too curioufly fearch'd into divine Majefty, were opprefs'd with the glory of it. Then