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3sS BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE, Ch; XVIIL
receipt was invented; which is as follows. Ari-
staeus having lost his bees by disease and famine,
never dreams of employing the ordinary means for
obtaining a new ftock; but, like a sroward child
complains heavily to his mother Cyrene, a water-
nymph. She advises him to consult Proteus, a
sea-god , not how he was to 'obtain a new stock,
but only by what satality he had lost his former
stock; adding, that violence was necessary, be-
catise Proteus would say nothing voluntarily. A-
rissaeus, satissied with this advice , though it gave
him no prospedt of repairing his loss, proceeds to
execution. Proteus it caught Beeping, bound with
cords, and compelled to speak. He declares, that
Aristaeus was punished with the loss of his bees,
for attempting the chastity of Euridice the wife
of Orpheus; she having been flung to death by a
serpent in ssying his embraces. Proteus, whole
sullenness ought to have been converted into wrath
by the rough treatment he met with, becomes on
a hidden courteous and communicative. He gives
the whole hissory of the expedition to hell which
Orpheus undertook in order to recover his spouse;
a very entertaining/story , but without the least re-
lation to what was in view. Ariflaeus , returning
to his mother, is advised to deprecate by facrifices
the wrath of Orpheus, who was now dead. A
bullock is sacrificed, and out of the entrails spring
miraculoussy a swarm of bees. Does it follow,
that the same may be obtained without a miracle,
is as supposed in the receipt ?
receipt was invented; which is as follows. Ari-
staeus having lost his bees by disease and famine,
never dreams of employing the ordinary means for
obtaining a new ftock; but, like a sroward child
complains heavily to his mother Cyrene, a water-
nymph. She advises him to consult Proteus, a
sea-god , not how he was to 'obtain a new stock,
but only by what satality he had lost his former
stock; adding, that violence was necessary, be-
catise Proteus would say nothing voluntarily. A-
rissaeus, satissied with this advice , though it gave
him no prospedt of repairing his loss, proceeds to
execution. Proteus it caught Beeping, bound with
cords, and compelled to speak. He declares, that
Aristaeus was punished with the loss of his bees,
for attempting the chastity of Euridice the wife
of Orpheus; she having been flung to death by a
serpent in ssying his embraces. Proteus, whole
sullenness ought to have been converted into wrath
by the rough treatment he met with, becomes on
a hidden courteous and communicative. He gives
the whole hissory of the expedition to hell which
Orpheus undertook in order to recover his spouse;
a very entertaining/story , but without the least re-
lation to what was in view. Ariflaeus , returning
to his mother, is advised to deprecate by facrifices
the wrath of Orpheus, who was now dead. A
bullock is sacrificed, and out of the entrails spring
miraculoussy a swarm of bees. Does it follow,
that the same may be obtained without a miracle,
is as supposed in the receipt ?