But if you will draw this Fable to a morall sense; then Scylla represents a Virgin, who as long as chast in thought, and in body unspotted, appears of an excellent beauty, attracting the eyes and hearts of all upon her; but if once polluted with the sorceries of Circe, id est, having rendred her Maiden honour to be deflowred by bewitching pleasure, she is transformed into an horrid Monster; and not so only, but endeavors to shipwrack others (such is the envy of infamous women) upon those ruining rocks, and to make them share in the same ca∣lamities.Briareus (which in the Greek signifies strong) was a mon∣strous Giant, the sonne of Titan and the Earth; he was said to have had an hundred arms,Briareus. and fifty heads, and to belch forth flames of fire out of his mouth; called by the Gods Ae∣gaeon, as by mortals Briareus, according to that verse of Ho∣mer:.— Thus described by Virgil Aeneid. lib. 10. Aegaeon qualis, centum cui brachia dicuntCentenas{que} manus, quinquaginta oribus ignemPectoribus{que} arsisse; Jovis cum fulmina contraTot paribus streperet clypeis, tot stringeret enses.Aegaeon (whom an hundred armes fame lent,An hundred hands; from fifty mouths who sentDestroying flames) when 'gainst Joves power he rose,As many shields did rattle, swords oppose. This Giant conspiring with the rest of his rebellious brethren against Jupiter, was with a thunder-clap struck dead by him, and buried under the weight of imposed Aetna, which is said to tremble and belch forth flames whensoever the wearied Monster changeth his posture. The Giants in generall are an emblem of the tumultuous and rebellious Multitude, which 0