i8 Tk History Ghafi. t. 



Nor eiwies he the Rich their happy Store, 

 Nor his own Peace dijlurbs mth Pity for the Poor. 

 He feeds on Fruits which of their own accord 

 The willing Ground and laden Trees afford: 

 From his lo'iid Home no Lucre can him draw' 

 The Senate s mad Decrees he never faw^ 

 Nor heard at bawling Barrs corrupted Law. 



Dryden'i Iranjlat. of Virgil. Geor. 2. 



And how awkardly he receiv'd the Royal 

 Veftments from /Alexander's Officers, is pa- 

 thetically defcrib'd in that Hiftojy : It fhall 

 fuffice to add here, that when Alexander had 

 beheld his Royal Countenance with Surprize, 

 he^sk'd him, How he could poffihly hear fo in-- 

 glorious and mean a State of Life .<? To which. 

 Would to God, fays he, / could hear thefe 

 Regal Ornaments with the fame Equality of 

 Mind thefe Hands have fupplyd my Necejfi^ 

 ties ^ and thd I have had no Superfluity, I 

 have fufferd no Want. [A pregnant Inftancc 

 how fubfervient the Pleafures of a Garden 

 are towards a virtuous Life, ev'n tho' under 

 the nioft defpicable and meaneft Circum- 

 ftances thereof.] But thus far this noble 

 Pattern of Refignation. 

 Roman The Grecian Empire being tranllated to 



Empre. jg^Qjjj^^ 1^0 doubt Gard-uiiig as well as Archi- 

 tedure followed feveral of the Ro?nan Kings, 

 (^) ^s Pliny relates^ having a great Vene- 

 ration for Gard ning, Agriculture, ^c. For 



(d) Komani quidemRegcs ipfi coli:ere. PJin. lib, 19. 14; 4. 



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