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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737 Excerpt:...but the tender Stem on which they grow Instant fink down their unsupported Heads, And bend, decaying, to their earthy Beds: So hung his dying Looks; so, overswayM, His languid Neck was on his Shoulder laid. Theobald alter'd.:--A deadly Rest And iron Slumbers seal his heavy Eyes, And closes them in everlasting Night;. Eagle. AS when the taWny Eagle tow'ring high, Sticks with her griping Talons in a Snake And snatches him aloft: He wounded writhes His tortuous Volumes, and with stiffen'd Scales Stares horrid: hisses loud, and in the A ir Erects his threat'ning Head: She not the less Plies him, reluctant, with her hooky Beak-, And with her sounding Pinions beats the Sky.--Trap. Not with more Ease the sacred Bird of Mars, The Faulcon, from a lofty Cliff pursues' A Dove sublime in Air, and gripes her seiz'd, And scoops her Entrails with his hooky Claws: Torn Plumes and Blood fall mingled from the Sky.--Id. In the vermilion Sky Jove's tow'ring Bird A Flock of River Fowl with sounding Wings Before him drove: Then, stooping to the Waves, With his sharp Pounces fnatch'd and bore aloft A stately Swan. Id. When Jove's bold Bird, on some tall Cedar's Head, Has a new Race of gen'rous Eaglets bred, While, yet unplum'd, within the Nest they lye, Wary she turns 'em to the Eastern Sky: Then, if unequal to the God of Day, Abash d they shrink, and shun the potent Ray, She spurns them forth, and casts them quite away T 2 But I 276 Terra. Qui potuere pad radios, & famine recto Sustinuerc diem coeli, fervaatur in ulus: Qui Phœbo ceflere, jacent. Lucan. Lib. XI. Terra. Vide Æt As Aore A. Creatio. PRincipie, genas berbarum, viridemque nitorem Terra dedh circum coUeis: campoYque per omneis Florida, fullerant vjridaati prara coiore: Arboribusque datum est variis exinde...