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Of true fimplicity -, and * " call'd in Art 



" Only to fecond Nature, and fupply 450 



" All that the Nymph forgot, or left forlorn." 



Yet what avail'd the fong ? or what avail'd 



Ev'n thine, Thou chief of Bards, whofe mighty mind. 



With inward light irradiate, mirror-like 



Receiv'd, and to mankind with ray reflex 455 



The fov'reign Planter's primal work difplay'd ? 



f* That work, " where not nice Art in curious knots, 



" But Nature boon pour'd forth on hill and dale 



" Flowers worthy of Paradife; while all around 



" Umbrageous grotts, and caves of cool recefs, 460 



-" And murmuring waters down the flope difpers'd, 



E 2 " Or 



* See Spencer's Fairy Queen, Book 4th, Canto the loth: the paflage imme- 

 diately alluded to is in the 2ift Stanza. 



.For all that Nature, by her mother wit, 



Could frame in earth and form of fubftance bafe 

 Was there ; and all that Nature did omit, 



Art (playing Nature's fecond part) fupplied it. 



f See Milton's inimitable defcription of the garden of Eden. Paradife Loft, 

 Book 4th, part of which is here .inferted. 



