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From gardens and till'd fields expell'd, yet there, 

 On the extreams stands up, and claims a share. 

 Nor mastiff-dog, nor pike-man can be found 

 A better fence to the enclosed ground. 

 Such breed the rough and hardy Cantons rear, 

 And into all adjacent lands prefer, 

 Though rugged churles, and for the battle fit ; 

 Who courts and states with complement or wit, 

 To civilize, nor to instruct pretend ; 

 But with stout faithful service to defend. 

 This tyrants know full well, nor more confide 

 On guards that serve less for defence than pride : 

 Their persons safe they do not judge amiss, 

 And realms committed to their guard of Swiss. 



For so the ingenious poet has metamorphos'd him, 

 and I could not withstand him. 



4. The haw-thorn, (oxyacantha vu/garisj and 

 indeed the very best of common hedges, is either 

 rais'd of seeds or plants ; but then it must not be with 

 despair, because sometimes you do not see them peep 

 the first year ; for the haw, and many other seeds, 

 being invested with a very hard integument, will now 

 and then suffer imprisonment two whole years under 

 the earth ; and our impatience at this, does often 

 fustrate the resurrection of divers seeds of this nature ; 

 so that we frequently dig up, and disturb the beds 

 where they have been sown, in despair, before they 



Plerumque, atque hortis ; sed circumsepit utrosque 

 Atque omnes aditus servat fidissima custos, 

 Utilior latrante cane, armatoque Priapo. 

 Aspera frigoribus saxisque Helvetia tales 

 Educat, & peregre terras emittit in omnes 

 Enormes durosque viros, sed fortia bello 

 Pectora ; non illi cultu, non moribus aulas, 

 Atque urbes decorare valent, sed utrasque fideli 

 Defendant opera ; nee iis, gens cauta, tyranni, 

 Praeponunt speciosa magis, multumque sonora 

 Praesidia ; his certi vitam tutantur opesque, &c. 



Couleii, pi. 1. 6. 



