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If you aik me whether there are no hindrances to 

 agricultural improvements? I anfwer. Yes: For to 

 fay nothing of the intermixture of property, and the 

 great negleft of landlords at a diftance, to get their 

 farms within ring-fences, and improve them at their 

 own expence, tithe in kind operates as a great check 

 upon the farmer's induftry ; for fince many have dif- 

 covered that by plowing their old dry land they can 

 grow from thirty to fifty bufliels of wheat per acre. 



" Though many a plump-thigh'd moor and full-flank'd marfli do prove 



*' To force his chafte defires, fo dainty of his love. 



" Firft SedgmoorJ fhews this flood, Iier bofom all unbrac'd, 



♦' And caft her wanton arms about his flender waift: 



" Her lover to obtain, fo amorous Audry feeks : 



" And Godne\^|| foftly fteals fweet kifTes from his cheeks. 



*' One takes him by the hand, intreating him to flay; 



" Another plucks him back, when he would fain away: 



«' But, having caught at length, whom long he did purfue, 



" Is fo intranc'd with love, her goodly parts to view, 



" That alt'ring quite his Ihape, to her he doth appear, 



•< And cafts his cryftal felf into an ample meer ; 



" But for his greater growth when needs he muft depart, 



" And forc'd to leave his love (though with a heavy heart) 



" As he his back doth turn, and is departing out, 



" The neighbouring marlhy Brent environs him about ; 



" But loathing her embrace, away in hafle he flings, 



" And in tlie Severn fea furrounds his plenteous fprings. 



X Sedgmoor when divided will be worth a million ftcrling. 



II Godney and all the adjoining moors arc already inclofcd, and are 

 now worth another million. Q^ Will any gentleman undertake to 

 prove that all tliofe moors, twenty' years fincc, benefited cither the pub- 

 lick or individuals one twentieth pait of their preftut value? 



wheat 



