While they astonish’d heard the king relate These wonders of his hapless brother’s fate, The prince’s herdsman at the court arrives, And fresh surprise to all the audience gives. “Oh Peleus! Peleus! dreadful news I bear,” He said, and trembled as he spoke for fear. The worst affrighted Peleus bid him tell, While Ceyx too grew pale with friendly zeal. Thus he began: “When Sol mid-heaven had gain’d, And half his way was pass’d, and half remain’d, I to the level shore my cattle drove, And let them freely in the meadows rove. Some stretch’d at length, admire the watery plain, Some cropp’d the herb, some wanton swam the main A temple stands of antique make hard by, Where no gilt domes, or marble, lure the eye. Unpolish’d rafters bear its lowly height, Hid by a grove, as ancient, from the sight. Here Nereus, and the Nereids they adore: I learn’d it from the man who thither bore His net to dry it on the sunny shore. Adjoins a lake, enclosed with willows round, Where swelling waves have overflow’d the mound, And muddy, stagnate, on the lower ground,