Henry Fielding
Image Attribution: Original image is from a drawing by William Hogarth Hogarth illustration, vol. III by John Irelan... (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Original image is from a drawing by William Hogarth Hogarth illustration, vol. III by John Irelan... (Public domain)
Hushed be every ruder breath. May the heathen ruler of the winds confine in iron chains the boisterous limbs of noisy Boreas, and the sharp-pointed nose of bitter-biting Eurus. Do thou, sweet Zephyrus, rising from thy fragrant bed, mount the western sky, and lead on those delicious gales, the charms of which call forth the lovely Flora from her chamber, perfumed with pearly dews, when on the 1st of June, her birth-day, the blooming maid, in loose attire, gently trips it over the verdant mead, where every flower rises to do her homage, till the whole field becomes enamelled, and colours contend with sweets which shall ravish her most.
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