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wanting motion, the ocean would stagnate, 

 and at last result in putrefaction ; so by 

 consequence invite a new creation. 



Let Scotland therefore be England's Cha- 

 lybs, and let England be unto a Scotland a 

 magnet to attract, contemporate, and min- 

 gle those northern severities, by southern 

 softned reflections of moderate heat ; lest 

 peradventure the rose withers, and the this- 

 tle meet with the fatal stroak of the syeth. 

 Nature is but one in all her operations. So 

 let these two famous and flourishing king- 

 doms survive their enemies, whilst I strip 

 off some of Scotland's sweetest flowers, to 

 present them to Cambridg, the place of my 

 nativity, with this legitimate fair one ; in- 

 tending her an academian there, because I 

 fancy in time she may grow a proficient, 

 when at present to appear so amiable in 

 rags ; and probably deserves better orna- 

 ments than my slender education is capable 

 to give her, whereby to manuduct her to 

 point the ground, till she her self treads the 

 stage of the world, as her heroick ancestors 

 have done before her. 



In the mean time, let me flatter my self, 



