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THE SECOND BOOKE 271
Neptunus muroa magnogue emota tridenti
Fundamenta quatit, tolamque a sedibus ut bem
Eruit: hie luno Scoeas scevissima portas
Prima tenet 1
Neptunus with his great three-forked mace
feliaks the weake wall, and tottering foundation,
And from the site the Cittie doth displace,
Fierce Juno first holds ope the gates t' invasion.
The Caunians, for the jelousie of their owne Gods
domination, upon their devotion day arme themselves,
and running up and downe, brandishing and striking
the ayre with their glaives, and in this earnest manner
they expell all forame and banish all strange Gods
from out their territoric. Their powers are limited
according to our necessitie. Some heale horses, some
cure men, some the plague, some the scald, some the
cough, some one kinde of scab, and some another:
Adeo minimis etiam rebus pram religio inserit Deos:
'This corrupt religion engageth and inserteth Gods
even in the least matters :' some make grapes to
growe, and some garlike; some have the charge of
bawdrie and uncleanesse, and some of merchandise : to>
every kinde of trades-man a God. Some one hath
his province and credit in the East, and some in the
West:
hie illius arma
Hic currus fuit. 2
His armor here
His chariots there appeare.
O sancte Apollo, qui umbdicum certum terrarum obtines.³
Sacred Apollo, who enfoldest
The earths set navell, and it holdest.
Pallada Ceaopidce, Minora Creta Dianam,
Vulcanum tellus Hipsiptlcea colit.
Iunonem Sparte, Pelopeiadesque Mycena,
Pimgerum Fauni Mamahs ora caput:
Mars Latio venerandns.*
1 VIRG. AEn. 1. ii. 610.
² lb. 1. i. 20. ³ Cic. Div. 1. ii,
4 OVID. Fast. 1, iii. 81.