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235 To learn the dreaded Truth; th' imperial Tent
Is rais'd on Land, the slimy Nobles meet,
Council august! when by Troxartes sent
Enter'd the Camp Embasichytrus[1] great.
Grac'd with a Herald's Crown, a gallant Mouse,
240 More than his Sire renown'd, his Sire Tyroglyphus.[2]
Is rais'd on Land, the slimy Nobles meet,
Council august! when by Troxartes sent
Enter'd the Camp Embasichytrus[1] great.
Grac'd with a Herald's Crown, a gallant Mouse,
240 More than his Sire renown'd, his Sire Tyroglyphus.[2]
XXV.
Intent, and silent stood the Lake-born Bands,
Ye Frogs amphibious, dauntless he begun,
Divine Troxartes King of Mice demands
Impartial Vengeance for his murder'd Son:
Intent, and silent stood the Lake-born Bands,
Ye Frogs amphibious, dauntless he begun,
Divine Troxartes King of Mice demands
Impartial Vengeance for his murder'd Son:
- ↑ v. 238. Embasichytrus.] A creeper into Pots.
- ↑ v. 240. Tyroglyphus.] A Cheese-Scooper. The Antient Poets seem to have been endu'd by Apollo with the Property of knowing all Things past, present, and to come, which a careful Reader may perceive by their Writings. This was probably the very Mouse which was caught in a Trap by Taffy; and I wonder he was not named by the Author of Muscipula; who has also overlook'd another Testimony of the Antiquity of the Welsh in Virgil, who mentions Evans in his Æneid, Necnon Evantem Phrygium.
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