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it over till we have repaired the havock our barbar- 

 ous enemies have made : Pardon then this zeal, O ye 

 lovers of your countrey, if it have transported me ! 

 To you Princes, Dukes, Earls, Lords, Knights and 

 Gentlemen, noble patriots (as most concerned) I 

 speak, to encourage and animate a work so glorious, 

 so necessary: A spirit like this was that which so 

 universally excited, and set forward the repair of the 

 decay'd peer at Dover, built of timber ; gentlemen 

 and persons of all degrees, setting their hand to it, 

 with a wonderful and unanimous zeal and alacrity, as 

 it is described by our honest Holingshed, in the reign 

 of Q. Elizabeth. And what has been done of later 

 date, in order to the improvement of their estates, 

 and ornament of their seats, we have already shew'd, 

 leading the way to those noble and honourable attempts, 

 the fruit of their hands and industry, in so few years, 

 already beginning to exalt their stately heads about 

 their estates and dwellings. 



To continue this then, let none be discouraged, 

 who have any generous regard to the good of their 

 country and posterity : Let us hear the Hessian bard, 



1 When either barren sands have kill'd the trees, 

 Or diligent hewers fell'd them by degrees ; 

 Then lest the earth should waste, and bare remain, 

 They scatter seeds, and leave them on the plain: 

 Hence to proceed, young stalkless leaves you'll find, 

 Next slender stems, which with a stronger rind 

 Invested, rise to trees: Of these is made 



1 Cum vel arena siti sterilis confecit iniqua 

 Vel labor excidit diuturnus & arida facta est 

 Planities, turn ne jaceant loca vasta recisis 

 Arboribus, nova conficiunt, & semina mittunt 

 Sparsa solo vacuo, campisque injecta relinquunt : 

 Turn videas prodire novas sine stipite frondes, 

 Mox quoque cauliculos tenues, turn cortice robur 



