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and her Throne to the young Prince w. He expressed his
sensibility , but before he wou'd accept of this double
favour, he asked leave to go once more to Athens. Each
day of his absence was a torment to Phyllis, her eyes were
never turned from that sea, v hich was to bring back her
lover. She climbed the highest mountains, that she might
discover his ship at a greater distance {b). At length not
seing him return so soon as her impatient flame requi-
red , and unable to bear any longer the cruel torment,
she killed herself. The Gods touched with compassion,
changed her body into that of a tree stripped of it's leaves.
Soon after this fatal event Demophoon arrives, he enqui-
res after the Queen , he learns her fate, and then is de-
sirous of seeing the tree. A female attendant condusts him
to it, and shews it to him*, full of grief and love he presses
a branch of it in his hand, the touch of the beloved obje6t
gives verdure to the tree, it is immediately covered with
leaves {c). Plate XIII. represents Phyllis in her excursions
on the mountains on the sea coast, attended by her good
Genius , w ho endeavours to calm her perturbed spirit.
Plate XIV. shews Demophoon at the moment he is going
to touch the almond tree. The head of the Goat painted
on the shield of Phyllis, denotes that she reigned in Thrace;
that country had particularly adopted this symbol , as is
proved by the medals struck in the reign of Roemetalcus,
w ho reigned there sixteen years before our Aera {d).
Plate 15.) TheAntients believed, that the souls of the
departed were not ignorant of what palled in this World,
that they saw with pleasure that they were regretted ,
that prayers were offerd for them to the Gods , the
Sove-
(a) Quae tibi fubjeci latissima regna Lycurgi (c) Servius in Virg. Eel. V. v. 1 o.
Nomine foemineo vix fads apta regi 6'c. Ibid. (d) Carfs Hijlory of die King's os Thrace .
(b) Mxfta tamen fcopulas fruticofaque Uttora calco.
Ibid.
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and her Throne to the young Prince w. He expressed his
sensibility , but before he wou'd accept of this double
favour, he asked leave to go once more to Athens. Each
day of his absence was a torment to Phyllis, her eyes were
never turned from that sea, v hich was to bring back her
lover. She climbed the highest mountains, that she might
discover his ship at a greater distance {b). At length not
seing him return so soon as her impatient flame requi-
red , and unable to bear any longer the cruel torment,
she killed herself. The Gods touched with compassion,
changed her body into that of a tree stripped of it's leaves.
Soon after this fatal event Demophoon arrives, he enqui-
res after the Queen , he learns her fate, and then is de-
sirous of seeing the tree. A female attendant condusts him
to it, and shews it to him*, full of grief and love he presses
a branch of it in his hand, the touch of the beloved obje6t
gives verdure to the tree, it is immediately covered with
leaves {c). Plate XIII. represents Phyllis in her excursions
on the mountains on the sea coast, attended by her good
Genius , w ho endeavours to calm her perturbed spirit.
Plate XIV. shews Demophoon at the moment he is going
to touch the almond tree. The head of the Goat painted
on the shield of Phyllis, denotes that she reigned in Thrace;
that country had particularly adopted this symbol , as is
proved by the medals struck in the reign of Roemetalcus,
w ho reigned there sixteen years before our Aera {d).
Plate 15.) TheAntients believed, that the souls of the
departed were not ignorant of what palled in this World,
that they saw with pleasure that they were regretted ,
that prayers were offerd for them to the Gods , the
Sove-
(a) Quae tibi fubjeci latissima regna Lycurgi (c) Servius in Virg. Eel. V. v. 1 o.
Nomine foemineo vix fads apta regi 6'c. Ibid. (d) Carfs Hijlory of die King's os Thrace .
(b) Mxfta tamen fcopulas fruticofaque Uttora calco.
Ibid.