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And with one mutual cry infult the fallen ! 

 Emblem too juft of man's degen'rate race. 



Others apart by native inflindl led, 

 Knowing inftru6tor ! 'mong the ranker grafs 

 Cull each falubrious plant, with bitter juice 

 Concodlive ftor'd, and potent to allay 

 Each vitious ferment. Thus the hand divine 

 Of Providence, beneficent and kind 

 To all his creatures, for the brutes preferibes 

 A ready remedy, and is himfelf 

 Their great phyfician. Now grown ftiff with age^ 

 And many a painful chace, the wife old hound, 

 Regardlefs of the frolick pack, attends 

 His mailer's fide, or (lumbers at his eafe 

 Beneath the bending fhade ; there many a ring 

 Runs o'er in dreams ; now on the doubtful foil 

 Puzzles perplex'd, or doubles intricate 

 Cautious unfolds -, then, wing'd with all his fpeed. 

 Bounds o'er the lawn to feize his panting prey. 

 And in imperfed: whimp'rings fpeaks his joy. 



A diff' rent hound for ev'ry diff'rent chace 

 Select with judgment ; nor the tim'rous hare 

 O'er-match'd deftroy, but leave that vile offence 

 To the mean, murd'rous courfing crew, intent 

 On blood and fpoil. O blaft their hopes, juft Heav'n \ 

 And all their painful drudgeries repay 

 With difappointment and fevere remorfe. 

 But hufband thou thy pleafures, and give fcope 

 To all herfubtle play ; by nature led, 



A thou- 



