THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 21 



To all his Lawns are pervious ; oft himfelf 



With courteous greeting will the critic hail, 



And join him in the circuit. Give we here 



(If Candour will with patient ear attend) 



The focial dialogue AL GANDER held 37 



With one, a Youth of mild yet manly mein, 



Who feem'd to tafte the beauties he furvey'd. 



" Little, I fear me, will a ftranger's eye 

 ee Find here to praife, where rich Vitruvian Art 

 M Has rear'd no temples, no triumphal arcs ; 375 



" Where no Palladian bridges fpan the ftream, 

 " But all is homebred Fancy." " For that caufe, 

 " And chiefly that," the polifh'd Youth reply'd, 

 " I view each part with rapture. Ornament, 

 " When foreign or fantaftic, never charm'd 380 



" My judgment; here I tread on Britifh ground; 

 " With Britim annals all I view accords. 

 ' Some Yorkift, or Lancaftrian Baron bold, 

 " To awe his vafTals, or to ftem his foes, 

 " Yon mafly bulwark built ; on yonder pile, 385 



03 " In 



