from a white sow found there by Æneas.--Vide Livy, lib. i

Cum tibi sollicito secreti ad fluminis undam
Litoreis ingens inventa sub illicibus sus,
Triginta capitum foetus enixa jacebit,
Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati:
Is locus urbis erit ei.

Virgil Æneid, lib. iii. v. 390.

When, in the shady shelter of a wood
And near the margin of a gentle flood,
Thou shalt behold a sow upon the ground,
With thirty sucking young encompassed round;
The dam and offspring white as falling snow:
These on thy city shall their name bestow, &c.

DRYDEN.


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LINES.

(_For the Mirror._)


"Preach to the storm, or reason with despair,
But tell not misery's son that life is fair"