Book the Sixth-3

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Comes tumbling to the sea, and Marsya is its name. The Story of Pelops From these relations strait the people turn To present truths, and lost Amphion mourn: The mother most was blam'd, yet some relate That Pelops pity'd, and bewail'd her fate, And stript his cloaths, and laid his shoulder bare, And made the iv'ry miracle appear. This shoulder, from the first, was form'd of flesh, As lively as the other, and as fresh; But, when the youth was by his father slain, The Gods restor'd his mangled limbs again; Only that place which joins the neck and arm, The rest untouch'd, was found to suffer harm: The loss of which an iv'ry piece sustain'd; And thus the youth his limbs, and life regain'd. The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela To Thebes the neighb'ring princes all repair,

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