Note Y — LETTER the FIFTH.
Reading edition
Nor must that gentle Rumour be supprest, How Milk once flowing from fair Juno's Breast Stain'd the celestial Pavement, from whence came This milky Path, its Cause shewn in its Name.
[Z]
When from the hurried Chariot Light'ning fled, And scatter'd blazes all the Skies o'erspread; By whose Approach new Stars enkindled were, Which still as Marks of that sad Chance appear.
Manilius.
[AA]
A Way there is in Heaven's expanded Plain Which when the Skies are clear, is seen below, And Mortals by the Name of Milky, know, The Ground-work is of Stars——
Ovid's
Met. lib. i.