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Step following flep, by tedious flight of flairs : 

 On leaden platforms now the noon- day fun 

 Shall fcorch thee; now the dank arcades of ftone 

 Shall chill thy fervour; happy, if at length 

 Thou reach the Orchard, where * the fparing turf 485 



Thro' equal lines all centring in a point 

 Yields thee a fofter tread. And yet full oft 

 O'er TEMPLE'S ftudious hour did Truth prefide > 

 Sprinkling her luftre o'er his clarDc page : 



There hear his candor own in fafhion's fpite* 490 



In 



* The French at prefent feem to be equally fparing of this natural clothing of 

 the Earth, altho' they have done us the honour to adopt our Bowling-Greens, 

 and to improve upon them. This appears from the following article of the 

 Encyclopedic tranilated verbatim. 



*' Boulingrin. N. S. In gardening is a fpecics of Parterre compoied of pieces 

 *' of divided turf with borders doping (en glacis) and evergreens at the corners 

 " and other parts of it. It is mowed four times a year to make the turf finer. 

 " The invention of this kind of parterre comes from England, as alfo. its name, 

 " which is derived from Boule round, and Grin fine grafs or turf. Boulingrins 

 " are either fimple, or compound; the firrple are all turf without ornament; 

 " the compound are cut into compartments of turf, embroidered with knots, 

 " mixt with little paths, borders of flowers, yew-trees, and flowering fhrubs. 

 " Sand alfo of different colours contributes greatly to their valued' 



