An Inconstant Lover, called
Phaon
, occasioned great Calamities to this Poetical Lady. She fell desperately in Love with him, and took a Voyage into
Sicily
in Pursuit of him, he having withdrawn himself thither on purpose to avoid her. It was in that Island, and on this Occasion, she is supposed to have made the Hymn to
Venus
, with a Translation of which I shall present my Reader. Her Hymn was ineffectual for the procuring that Happiness which she prayed for in it.
Phaon
was still obdurate, and
Sappho