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flatulent, my strain too torpid, my pen not ele- 

 gant, nor my stile polite enough to illustrate 

 the beauty of such stately inbellishments, the 

 admired subject of every man's praise ; which 

 more worthily deserves the applause of an inge- 

 nious historiographer, rather than the character 

 of so weak a surveyer. However, I have done 

 what I was able to do, and shall now leave the 

 scenes for some other to decipher, that's more 

 intelligible, and capable to perform such a work 

 than my self. Yet give me leave once again to 

 drive the nail a little further ; when to evince 

 the dissatisfied that Nottingham (as prenoted) 

 is no town, but rather a beautiful and imbel- 

 lish'd seraglio, where every street, nay, every 

 port, represents as it were the new face of a 

 court. 



Theoph. Or a comet. 



Arn. Then what if I call it our Northern Star, 

 to influence and reflection on the southern ele- 

 vations, and because being bless'dwith the bless- 

 ings of trade and fertility ; but could I say she 

 liv'd without the vanity of prodigality, then 

 would I stile her a vertue as well as a beauty ; 

 where art and invention have supplies and en- 

 couragement ; and where new fabricks are hour- 

 ly lifted up into the ambient air. So that a man 

 would think her to sprout and vegetate, by the 

 daily progress she makes in her buildings. So 



