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fore, only to defire that my readers, now poflefled of one of 

 my fecrets, would fubftitute an N for a G where the name 

 LIGEA occurs; and that the refpe&able Gentleman, now 

 acquainted with the other, would acquit me of any premedi- 

 tated ridicule on his fubje<ft. 



IV. Factitious or artificial ornaments, in contradiftindlion 

 to natural ones laft treated, form the general fubject of the 

 FOURTH BOOK, and conclude the plan. By thefe is meant 

 not only every aid which the art borrows from architecture $ 

 but thofe fmaller pieces of feparate fcenery appropriated either 

 to ornament or ufe, which do not make a neceflary part of 

 the whole; and which, if admitted into it, would frequently 

 occafion a littlenefs ill-fuiting with that unity and fimplicity 

 which mould ever be principally attended to in an extenfive 

 pleafure- ground. 



Though this fubject was in itfelf as fufceptible of poetical 

 embellishment as any that preceded it, and much more fo 

 than thofe contained in the fecond book -, yet I was appre- 

 henfive that defcriptive poetry, however varied, might pall 



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