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Part of Virgils 4th. Georgick.
Aristeus, having lost his Bees, goes by his Mother's direction to Proteus to know why the Gods had sent this Plague; Pro∣teus tells him they sent it to revenge the injury he had done Orpheus, in being the the cause of his Brides death, and so goes on with the Story of his Passion.
NOw scorching Sirius burnt the thirsty Moors,
And Seas contracted left their naked shores;
The Earth lay chop'd, no Spring supply'd his floud,
And mid-day Rays boyld up the streams to mud:
When Proteus coming to his usual Cave,
The Sea Calf following spouts the brackish wave:
Spread o're the sand the scatter'd Monsters lay,
He (like a Shepheard at the close of day,