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From hence were heard, (rebellowing to
the Main)
The Roars of Lions that refuse the
Chain,
The Grunts of bristledBoars, and Groans
of Bears,
And Herds of Howling Wolves that
stun the Sailor’s Ears.
These from their Caverns, at the Close
of Night,
Fill the sad Hie with Horror and Af-
fright,
Darkling they mourn their Fate, whom
Circe's Pow’r,
(That watch’d the Moon, and Planeta-
ry Hour)
Had alter’d, and in Brutal Shapes coiA
fin’d.
Which Monsters lest the Trojan's Pi-
ous Host
Should bear, or touch upon th’ inch a si-
led Coast;
Propitious Neptune sleer’d their Course by
Night 7
With rifing Gales,that sped their happy
Flight. Dryden.
Virgil calls this Promontory NLe# In-
fula Circes in the Third jfdneidy but ’tis
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