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Its (landing pleafure, and intrinfic worth, 

 The body's virtue, and the foul's good fortune, 

 health. 



Methinks I fee great Dioclejian walk 



In the Salojiian garden's noble (hade, 

 Which by his own imperial hands was made : 



I fee him fmile, methinks, as he does talk 



With the ambaflador, who came in vain 



T'entice him to a throne again : 

 If I , my friends, faid he, mould to you (how 

 All the delights which in thefe gardens grow, 



'Tis likelier much that you mould with me ftayy 



Than 'tis that you mould carry me away : 



And trull me not, my friends, if evejry day 

 I walk not here with more delight 



Than ever after the moll happy fight, 



In triumph to the capitol I rod, 

 To thank the Gods, and to be thought myfelf a GcxJ* 



Mr. Cowley 's paffion for retirement was indeed veJ% 

 ilrong; but might he not well fay, " Is there not a 

 caufef' He had been converfant in high and public 

 life, and was very glad to leave 



Thofe dangerous polls, where culloms ill agree 

 With virtuous rules, or found philofophy. 



As one reafon for his going out from Sodom (as he 

 fpeaks) to his little Zoar, he afks, 



W T ho that has reafon and his fmell,^ 

 W r ould not among rofes and jafmin dwell, 

 Rather than all hi* fpirits choak 

 With exhalations of dirt and fmoak ; 

 And all th' uncleannefs which does drown 

 In pellilential clouds a populous town. 



Another poet {Clericus) retiring from town to a cot- 

 tage and 4 £ardtn, fays, 



Et I ftrait 



