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Rome, by Sea. aiy
To the Cumean Coast at length he
came,
And, here alighting, built his coslly
Frame
Inscrib’d to Phcebus^ here he hung on
high
The Steerage of his Wings that cut
the Sky*
Then o’er the lofty Gate his Art em-
boss’d
Andreyev's Death, and OfF’rings to his
Ghost,
Sev’n Youths from Athens yearly sent,
to meet
The Fate appointed by revengeful Crete j
And next to thofe the dreadful Urn was
plac’d,
In which the defin’d Names by Lots
were cast. Dryden.
Among other Subterraneous Works
there is the beginning of a Passage,
which is slopp’d up within less than a
Hundred Yards of the Entrance, by
the Earth that is fallen into it. They
supposeit to have been the other Mouth
of the Sibyl's Grotto. It lyes indeed in
the same Line with the Entrance near
the Avernus^ is fac’d alike with the O-
$us Reticulatum^ and has still the Marks
of
To the Cumean Coast at length he
came,
And, here alighting, built his coslly
Frame
Inscrib’d to Phcebus^ here he hung on
high
The Steerage of his Wings that cut
the Sky*
Then o’er the lofty Gate his Art em-
boss’d
Andreyev's Death, and OfF’rings to his
Ghost,
Sev’n Youths from Athens yearly sent,
to meet
The Fate appointed by revengeful Crete j
And next to thofe the dreadful Urn was
plac’d,
In which the defin’d Names by Lots
were cast. Dryden.
Among other Subterraneous Works
there is the beginning of a Passage,
which is slopp’d up within less than a
Hundred Yards of the Entrance, by
the Earth that is fallen into it. They
supposeit to have been the other Mouth
of the Sibyl's Grotto. It lyes indeed in
the same Line with the Entrance near
the Avernus^ is fac’d alike with the O-
$us Reticulatum^ and has still the Marks
of