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• I lay, as it were, in the Paphian bower of bliss, in a state of exquisite sensations quite impossible to describe.
• People passed, but they held me not. Paphian eyes rayed upon me, and left me unscathed.
• Then thus incensed, the Paphian queen replies: / "Obey the power from whom thy glories rise: / Should Venus leave thee, every charm must fly, / Fade from thy cheek, and languish in thy eye. / Cease to provoke me, lest I make thee more / The world’s aversion, than their love before; / Now the bright prize for which mankind engage, / Than, the sad victim, of the public rage."
• So saying, the might of Vulcan loos’d the snare, / And they, detain’d by those coercive bands / No longer, from the couch upstarting, flew, / Mars into Thrace, and to her Paphian home / The Queen of smiles, where deep in myrtle groves / Her incense-breathing altar stands embow’r’d.
• They reach'd the hotel: forth stream'd from the front door / A tide of well-clad waiters, and around / The mob stood, and as usual several score / Of those pedestrian Paphians who abound / In decent London when the daylight's o'er; / Commodious but immoral, they are found / Useful, like Malthus, in promoting marriage.
• Then there is the mastus. Apollodorus the Cyrenæan, as Pamphilus says, states that this is a name given to drinking-cups by the Paphians.