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Given at our Court on . Mount Parnassus , in the Violet Chamber , and in the presence of our Violet-stockinged Maids of
Honour , commonly called the Muses , this Fifteenth Day of September , One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-seven .
PHCEBUS APOLLO . By his Majesty ' s command , Iamus . vive la violette .
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Note bjf the Editor . — With great penitence , and as some amends , for having omitted to impress strongly enough in this matter the wishes of the great and beloved Sovereign , who permits the meanest of his
people to warm themselves at the rays of his goodness , I take occasion , from this first appearance of his illustrious son , lamm , as his secretary , to state to the subjects of his Majesty ' s royal nepnew , Pan , ( commonly called " country gentlemen , " )
who the said illustrious Jam us iiiay bej ; and to congratulate all the persons concerned , on this direct manifestation of his Majesty ' s gracious will and pleasure for the furtherance of tii £ dignity arid preyailingneps of this haDov title of Violet .
lately vouchsafed to ^ 11 literary Mtearer * of amiat > le stockings . Mi « Wdef ^ ao ttis , Icmi-MW ' be ^ &an lay before the reader an extract from the a&f l ^ Kej ^ hfley , b e fore uoltjc ^ d , in which he narrates , after the
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" beautiful" account , as he justly calls it , giyeft us by Pindar , the story of the said divine Iamus , requesting all readers , young and old , to admire with me the loveliness of these
poetical Greek stories , and to recognize , in the least known of them , the genial warmth and graces inspired by a sense of the divinity of the god of sunshine .
THE LEGEND OF IAMUS . 6 < The nymph Pitana , the daughter of the river-god Eurotas , conceived by Poseidon the 6 violet-tressed' Evadne . She concealed her state ; and when the babe was born sent it
to iEpytus , the son of Elatus , the son of Areas , who dwelt at Phsesane , on the banks of the Alpheius in Arcadia . When Evadne grew up , her charms attracted the love of Apollo . The consequence of her
interintercourse with the god did not escape iEpytus ; who , filled with anger and concern , journeyed to Pytho , to consult the oracle about the unhappy affair . While he was absent , Evadne , who had gone to the fount , felt her pains come on .
She laid down her silver pitcher and loosed her ' purple-yellow girdle / and beneath the dark foliage brought forth her * divine-minded ' son . The ' gold ' hair'd god had sent the mild Eleutho and the Meerae to ease
her labour , and bring Ipmus tp light The mourning mother left her new-born babe on . ! the
ground , # nd two green-eyed serpents came by the direction
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264 Blues and Violets—a Proclamation .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/39/
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