OCEANUS

BE silent, now the Ceremonies done. And NIGER, say, how comes it, lovely Son, That thou, the AETHIOPES River, so far East, Art seen to fallen into the extremest West Of me, the King of floods, OCEANUS, And, in mine Empires heart, salute me, thus? My ceaseless current, now amazed stands! To see thy labour, through so many lands, There wants not enough, in nature, to au thorise this partly of our fiction, in see perating Ni her, from the Ocean, (beside the fable of Alph us, and that, to which Virgil alludes of Arethusa in his 10. Eclogue. Sic tibi, cum fluctus subterlabere Sicanos, Doris ama ra suam non intermisicat undam ) examples of Nilus, Jordan, and others, whereof see Nican. lib. 1. de flumin. and Plut in vita Syllae. even of this our river (as some think) by the name of Melas. Mix thy fresh billow, with my brackish stream; And, in thy sweetness, stretch thy diadem, To these far distant, and unequaled skies This squared Circle of celestial bodies: But, what's the end of thy Herculean labors, Extended to these calm, and blessed shores? This Land, that lifts into the temperate Air His snowy cliff, is Orpheus in his Argonaut. calls it in non-Latin alphabet . Albion the fair; So called of Alluding to that rite of styling Princes, after the name of their Princedoms: so is he still Albion, and Neptune's son that governs. As also his being deer to Nep tune, in be king so em braced by him. Neptune's Son, who ruleth here: For whose deer guard, my self, (four thousand year) Since old Deucalion's days, have walked the round About his Empire, proud, to see him crowned Above my waves.