He then salutes her with a warm embrace; And, ere she half had told the morning chase, With love inflamed, and eager on his bliss: Smother’d her words, and stopp’d her with a kiss: His kisses with unwonted ardour glow’d, Nor could Diana’s shape conceal the god.

Possess’d at length of what his heart desired, Back to his heavens the exulting god retired.

But now Diana, with a sprightly train Of quiver’d virgins, bounding o’er the plain, Call’d to the nymph; the nymph began to fear A second fraud, a Jove disguised in her; But when she saw the sister nymphs, suppress’d Her rising fears, and mingled with the rest.