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rules of .painting. But all objects are beft as 

 nature made them. Art cannot mend them. 

 Where art interferes, pidhirefque beauty va- 

 nifhes. We drefs the polifhed lawn: but we 

 only remove what may there be a deformity, 

 tho elfewhere a beauty. When we endeavour 

 to improve the objeft when we clip the holly, 

 and trim the box, we introduce deformity. 

 We fometimes indeed artfully remove a branch : 

 but it is to open the landscape ; not to improve 

 the tree : or if to improve the tree, it is only 

 when fome foreign caufe has counteracted na- 

 ture. 



The flag, during his firft year is called a 

 calf-, and does not aflume the name of a Jlag 

 till his fifth 5 being known in the intermediate 

 years, by certain tecnical names, which none 

 but forefters can remember. In his fixth year 

 he takes the refpectable title of a hart. Some 

 authors have given it to his fifth ; but I 



follow the authority of Man wood*. Beiides 



this title, he may ftill attain two higher degrees 

 of honour; thofe .of hart-royal, and of a 

 hart-royal proclaimed. 



* See Manwood, page 99* 



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