IRIS

AS I was the joyful Messenger to notify the coming, so am I now the same of the depar ture of these divine powers. Who having cloa worser themselves with these appearances, do now return back again to the Spheres of their own being from, whence they came. But yet, of my self, this much I must reveal, though against the warrant of a Messenger; who I know had bet ter to fail in obedience then in presumption, that these Deities by the motion of the all-direc ting Pallas, the glorious Patroncsse of this migh tie Monarchy, descending in the Majesty of their invisible essence, upon yonder Mountain, found there, the best, (and most worthily the best) of LADIES, disporting with her choicest Atten dants, whose forms they presently undertook, as delighting to be in the best-built-Temples of Beauty and Honour. And in them vouchsafed to appear in this manner, being otherwise no ob iects for mortal eyes. And no doubt, but that in respect of the persons under whose beautiful continued uerings they have thus prese ̄ ted themselves, these Deities will be pleased the rather at their invoca cion (knowing all their desires to be such) as ever more to grace this glorious Monarchy with the Real effects of these blessings represented.