Poems upon Several Occasions/26
My Lady HYDE.
WHEN fam'd Apelles sought to frame
Some Image of th' Idalian Dame,
To furnish Graces for the Piece
He summon'd all the Nymphs of Greece;
So many Mortals were combin’d,
To show how one Immortal shin’d.
Had Hyde thus sat by Proxy too,
As Venus then was said to do,
Venus her self, and all the Train
Of Goddesses, had summon’d been;
The Painter must have search’d the Skies,
To match the Lustre of her Eyes.
Comparing then, while thus we view
The ancient Venus, and the new,
In her we many Mortals see,
As many Goddesses in Thee.