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Scilly join'd with Cornwall.
Una foret, venit medio vi pontus & undisHeſperium ſicula latus abſcindit: arvaque & urbesLittore diductas anguſto interluit æſtu.Dextrum ſcylla latus, lævum implacata CharybdisObſidet: atque imo barathri ter gurgite vaſtosSorbet in abruptum fluctus rurſuſq; ſub aurasErigit alternos, & ſydera verberat unda.At ſcyllam cæcis cohibet ſpelunca latebrisOra exertantem & naves in ſaxa trahentem.Prima hominis facies, & pulchro pectore virgoPube tenus: poſtrema immani corpore priſtis,Delphinum caudas utero commiſſa luporum.Præſtat Trinacrii metas luſtrare PachyniCeſſantem, longos & circumflexere curſus;Quam ſemel informem vaſto vidiſſe ſub antroScyllam & cæruleis canibus reſonantia ſaxa.
And Claudian, in Imitation of Virgil, ſays,
Noſtro deducta Britannia Mundo.Britain from our World ſever'd.
Æneid. lib. 3. 1. 414.
Pliny
