A virgin’s likeness with the brows of love.
He bade Minerva teach the skill, that sheds
A thousand colours in the gliding threads:
Bade lovely Venus breathe around her face
The charm of air, the witchery of grace:
Infuse corroding pangs of keen desire,
And cares that trick the form with prank’d attire:
Bade Hermes last implant the craft refined
Of thievish manners and a shameless mind.
He gives command; th’ inferior powers obey: