[W]

The sacred Causes human Breasts enquire,

Whether the heavenly Segments there retire,

The whole Mass shrinking, and the parting Fame

Thro' cleaving Chinks admits the stranger Flame.

Oenopides[X] believed it the ancient Way of the Sun, till frighted at the bloody Banquet of Thyestis. [Y]Eratosthenes supposed it Juno's Milk, spilt whilst giving Suck to Hercules. [Z]Plutarch makes it the Effect of Phaeton's confused Erratication; but I think it is plain [AA]Ovid judged them to be Stars, and the ancient Ethnicks believed them to be the blissful Seats of valiant and heroic Souls.

——Valiant Souls, freed from corporeal Gives,

Thither repair, and lead æthereal Lives.

[X]

Or seems that old Opinion of more Sway,