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156 F I N G A L. Book III.
Loud as the Sound a thoufand Waters yields
His bold Companions pour'd along the Field ;
25 They took in Fight the Monarch of the Main,
But to his Ships reftor'd him fafe again.
The haughty King, who could not brook this Fall^
Refolv'd to wreak his Vengeance on Fingal :
(For none, before he met that Son of Fame,
30 The Strength of mighty Starno overcame)
But finding open Force would not fucceed,
He doom'd by Treachery the Youth fliould bleed.
In Scandinavian Hall of Shells arriv'd ;
The Place, and fecret Manner there contriv'd
35 To aA this horrid Deed, he Snivan calls ;
(An aged Prieft, who round the lonely Walls
Of
the prefent Aftion, it could be regularly introduced no where, except in an
Epilbde. Accordingly the Poet, with as much Propriety as if Arijlotle
himfclf had diredled the Plan, has contrived an Epifode for the Purpofe in
the Beginning of the prefent Book.
V. 36.