——Æneas quem Dardanio Anchisæ
Alma Venus Phrygii genuit Simoentis ad undas.
And the Manner of the Countryman's going to consult Merlin, is like that of Æneas's approaching the Oracle of Delphos.
——Egressi veneramur Apollinis Urbem.
And how naturally and poetically does he describe the Modesty of the Man, who wou'd be content, if Merlin wou'd grant him his Request, with a Son no bigger than his Thumb.
The Two next Stanza's carry on the Idea with a great deal of Probability and Consistence; and to convince the World that he
was born to be something more than Man, he produces a Miracle to bring him into it.
Begot, and born in half an Hour,
To fit his Father’s Will.
The following Stanza continues the Miracle, and brings the Fairy Queen and her Subjects, who gives him his Name, and makes him a Present of his Apparel.