--------Totos infusa per artus, Major in exiguo regnabat corpore virtus. If any suppose the Notion of such an Hero improbable, they'll find the Character _Virgil_ gives _Camilla_ to be as far stretch'd: Illa vel Intactae segetis per summa volaret Gramina, nec teneras cursu laesisset Aristas: Vel mare per medium, fluctu suspensa tumenti Ferret Iter: celeres nec tingeret aequore plantas. But to proceed, His Father was a Plowman plain, His Mother milk'd the Cow, And yet a Way to get a Son This Couple knew not how, Until such time the good old Man To learned _Merlin_ goes, And there to him in deep Distress In secret Manner shows, How in his Heart he wish'd to have, A Child in time to come, To be his Heir, tho' it might be No bigger than his Thumb. Of which old _Merlin_ was foretold, That he his Wish should have, And so a Son of Stature small The Charmer to him gave. There is nothing more common throughout the Poets of the finest Taste, than to give an Account of the Pedigree of their Hero. So _Virgil_, ----AEneas quem Dardanio Anchisae Alma Venus Phrygii genuit Simoentis ad undas. And the Manner of the Countryman's going to consult _Merlin_, is like that of _AEneas_'s approaching the Oracle of _Delphos_. ----Egressi veneramur Apollinis Urbem. And how naturally and poetically does he describe the Modesty of the Man, who wou'd be content, if _Merlin_ wou'd grant him his Request, with a Son no bigger than his Thumb. The Two next Stanza's carry on the Idea with a great deal of Probability and Consistence; and to convince the World that he was born to be something more than Man, he produces a Miracle to bring him into it. Begot, and born in half an Hour, To fit his Father's Will. The following Stanza continues the Miracle, and brings the _Fairy Queen_ and her Subjects, who gives him his Name, and makes him a Present of his Apparel. Whereas she cloath'd him fine and brave, In Garments richly fair, The which did serve him many Years In seemly sort to wear. So _Virgil_ of Queen _Dido_'s Present to _Ascanius_: Hoc Juvenem egregium praestanti munere donat. And again, --------Quem candida Dido Esse sui dederat Monumentum & pignus Amoris. The Description of his Dress is very agreeable, and is not unlike what I have met with somewhere of a Giant going a Fishing, with an Account of his Implements equal to his Proportion. His Hat made of an Oaken Leaf, His Shirt a Spider's Web, Both light and soft for these his Limbs That were so smally bred. His Hose and Doublet Thistle Down, Together weav'd full fine; His Stockings of an Apple green, Made of the outward Rind; His Garters were two little Hairs Pluck'd from his Mothers Eye; His Shooes made of a Mouse's Skin, And Tann'd most curiously. The next Stanza's relate his Diversions, bearing some Analogy to those of _Ascanius_ and other Lads in _Virgil_: