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tals are hurried headlong into all fort? of wicked-
nefs; for Anger begets hatred and revenge ; Co<
vetoufnefs feeks immoderate wealth, by right on
wrong; and Lull perfuades to purfue pleafures at
any rate.
The meaning of the fabl>> is, that every one’s own
fraud and terror difturbs him molt; that his own
wickednefs torments him ; his madnefs affeifts him;
and his evil thoughts and ladies of confcience af¬
fright his mind. Thefe are the continual and do-
meftick furies to the wicked, which both night and
day exadl the deferved punilhment of all their
crimes.
CHAP. VIII.
N O X.
OX is the moft ancient of all the goddefles,
the lifter of Erebus, and daughter of Chaos.
She had by her brother a daughter death, and a
fon deep, who gives peace of mind to mortals, takes
away all care and folicitude, remedies the members
of the body, wearied with hard fervices, and re¬
cruits them for their daily labours. In the palace
of deep, there are two gates; one of ivory, thro’
which falfe dreams pafs ; the other of horn, which
emits true vidons.
Morpheus is the fervant of deep, who can change
hitnfelf into all diapes and figures, and prefents tne
dreams to perfons deeping.
C H A P. IX.
THE THREE JUDGES OF HELL.
rT''HE three judges of hell are Minos, Rhada-
X manthus, and yliacus, who for their lingular
prudence