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The twining whip, but ply his bleeding fides 

 Laih after lafli, and with thy threat'ning voice, 

 Harlh-echoing from the hills, inculcate loud 

 His vile offence. Sooner fhall trembling doves, 

 £fcap'd the hawk's fharp talons, in mid air, 

 Aflail their dang'rous foe, than he once more 

 Difturb the peaceful flocks. In tender age 

 Thus youth is train'd ; as curious artifts bend 

 The taper, pliant twig •, or potters form 

 Their foft and dudtile clay to various fhapes. 

 Nor is't enough to breed ', but to preferve 

 Muft be the huntfman's care. The ftanch old hounds, 

 Guides of thy pack, the' but in number few, 

 Are yet of great account •, Ihall oft untie 

 The Gordian knot, when reafon at a (land 

 Puzzling is loft, and all thy art is vain. 

 O'er clogging fallows, o'er dry plafter'd roads. 

 O'er floated meads, o'er plains with flocks diftain'd 

 Rank fcenting, rhefe muft lead the dubious way. 

 As party-chiefs in fenates who prefide. 

 With pleaded reafon and with well-turn'd fpeech 

 Condudt the flaring multitude ; fo thefe 

 Diredtthe pack, who with joint cry approve. 

 And loudly boaft difcov'ries not their own. 

 Unnumber'd accidents, and various ills. 

 Attend thy pack, hang hov'ring o'er their heads. 

 And point the way that leads to death's dark cave. 

 Short is their fpan ; few at the date arrive 

 Of ancient Argus, in old Homer's fong 



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