The Pantheon representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes in a short, plain and familiar method by way of dialogue / written Fra. Pomey.

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Title: The Pantheon representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes in a short, plain and familiar method by way of dialogue / written Fra. Pomey.
Author: Pomey, François, 1618-1673.
Publication: London :: Printed for Charles Harper ...,; MDCXCVIII [1698]
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Subject terms: Mythology, Classical.; Gods, Gallo-Roman.
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SECT. IV.

The Signification of the foregoing Fable.

LET us explain this Fable. Indeed when a Venus is married to a Vulcan, that is, a very handsom Lady to a very ugly Man, it is a great occasion of Adultery. But nei∣ther can that Dishonesty, nor any other, es∣cape the knowledge of the Sun of Righteousness, although it be done in the obscurest Darkness; though it be with the utmost care guarded by the trustiest Pimps in the World; tho they be committed in the privatest Retirement and concealed with the greatest a••••, they will all at one time be exposed to both the Infernal and Celestial Regions, in the brightest Light: when the Offenders shall be set in the midst, bound by the Chains of their Consciences by that faln Vulcan, who is the Instrument of the Terrors of the true. Iupiter; and then they shall hear and suffer the Sentence that was formerly threatned to David in this Life, Thou didst this thing secretly, but I will raise up evil against thee, in the sight of all Israel, and before the Sun: 2 Sam. 12. 12.

But let us return again to Mars, or rather to the Son of Mars, Tereus; who learnt Wick∣edness from his Fathers Example, as a bad Father makes a bad Child, says the Proverb.