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THE ARGUMENT.
 

 


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THE ARGUMENT.

Acis was the Son of Faunus, and the Nymph Symethis. He loved and was beloved of the Nymph Galatea, Daughter to Nereus, the Son of Oceanus and Tethys. Acis was allowed to be the handsomest


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Youth of all Sicily; he was happy in his Amours with Galatea, till Polyphemus the Cyclop, Son of Neptune, fell in love with her, who surprizing 'em together, with a Piece of a Rock overwhelmed Acis. Galatea, by her Persuasion, gained her Father Nereus's Consent to change him into a River. Here the Poet has altered the Catastrophe, and makes Acis and Galatea happy at last by Marriage. The Under-Plot of Roger and Joan

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is brought in to make the Piece the more Dramatical. The Story at large is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses, lib. 13.