The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

And tender kids. And to these, taste black wine,

The third part water, of the Crystaline

Still flowing fount, that feeds a streame beneath;

And sit in shades, where temperate gales may breath

On thy oppos’d cheeks. When Orion’s raies

His influence, in first ascent, assaies,

Then to thy labouring Seruants giue command,

[306]To dight the sacred gift of Ceres hand,

In some place windie, on a [307]well-planed floore;

Which, all by measure, into Vessels poure;