ir train appear;
Far off she flies from pompous walls;
Virtue and Peace dwell here.

The queen was all attention, and at the end of the song she gazed around
her, in hopes of seeing the person whose enchanting voice she had been
so eagerly listening to, when she espied a young shepherdess, not
much older than the Princess Hebe, but possessed of such uncommon and
dazzling beauty, that it was some time before she could disengage her
eyes from so agreeable an object. As soon as the young shepherdess found
herself observed, she seemed modestly to offer to withdraw; but the
queen begged her not to go till she had informed them who she was, that,
with such a commanding aspect, had so much engaged them in her favour.

The shepherdess coming forward, with a bashful blush, and profound
obedience, answered, that her name was Rozella, and she was the daughter
of a neighbouring shepherd and shepherdess, who lived about a quarter of
a mile from thence; and, to confess the truth, she had wandered thither,
in hopes of seeing the young stranger, whose fame for beauty and wisdom
had filled all that country round.

The Princess Hebe, well knowing of whom she spoke, conceived from that
moment such an inclination fur her acquaintance, that she begged her to
stay and spend that whole day with them in Placid Grove. Here the queen
frowned upon her, for she had, by the fairy's desire, charged her never
to bring any one, without her permission, into that peaceful grove.

The young Rozella answered, that nothing could be more agreeable to her
inclinations; but she must be at home by noon, for so in the morning
had her father commanded her, and never yet in her life had she either
disputed or disobeyed her parent's commands. Here the young princess
looked on her mother with eyes expressive of her joy at finding a
companion, which she, and even the fairy herself, could not disapprove.

When Rozella took her leave, she begged the favour that the little Hebe
(for so she called her, not knowing her to be a princess) might come
to her father's small cottage, and there partake such homely fare as it
afforded; a welcome, she said, she could insure her; and though poor,
yet from the honesty of her parents, who would be proud to entertain
so rare a beauty, she was certain no sort of harm could happen to the
pretty Hebe, from such a friendly visit; and she would be in the same
place again tomorrow, to meet her, in hopes, as she said, to c