Chap. I. of GARDENING, €nc. 29 



It would take up too much time to enu-; 

 merate all the Strokes he has left, in his in- 

 comparable Poems on the Happinefs and De- 

 light of the Country, which he feems to ex- 

 prefs in Raptures not common 5 butlfhall 

 content myfeif with giving a fliort Quotation 

 out of his Letter, diredled to his Steward, 

 which livelily exprelTes his Love of the 

 Country : 



Thou Stevcard of my Woods andpleafantPlaiii, 

 Which when I reach, I am myfeif again ^ 

 Contemn d by thee^ thd it hath kept alone 

 Five ancient Dwellers 5 and is often known 

 To fend Five Senators to Baria ^ Town : 

 Come^ now 'tis time-^ let's fee which of the two, 

 I from my Mind^ or from my Pajiuresyou, 

 Can pluck Thorns bejt^ and which is better tilld^ 

 And which is better^ Horace or his Field. 



And after he had examined the Reafdns v,f. 

 why he preferr'd (contrary to the Opinion of 

 his Servant) the Country before the City* 

 concludes. 



- My Neighbours fmile 



To fee me bufy in my little Toil : 

 But you had rather be removed to Town ; 

 That way your Mind and eager WilJjes run. 

 The Cityjlave^ the while the Country love. 

 And envy thee thy Garden and thy Grove, 



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