Chap. I. of GARDENING, &c. 45 



MovAtxxt Boikau is another who has ho-^oiieau. 

 coured this Employ both by his Pen and 

 Praftice 5 feveral Parts of his Mifcellaneous 

 Poems being Glances at it, I (hail only beg 

 leave to tranfcribe part of his Epiftle to his 

 Gardiner ^ which being fomething Jocofe, may 

 may help to alleviate this tirefome Courfe 

 of Hiftory. He begins : 



Thou^ as Laborious^ as thy Majier Kind, 

 Whofeems to blefs thy Toil, by Heavn defign*d^ 

 Thou daily do ft thy grateful Task renew. 

 To guide the Wood-bind, and the ruder Tewjb^c. 



And running thro' the Bufinefs and Toil 

 of his Man Anthony, with fome merry Obfer- 

 vations on his laborious Innocence, draws 

 towards a Conclufion, by obferving, that pof- 

 libly he had detained him too long from his 

 neceffary Bufinefs, in this manner : 



Tij time for me to end-^ hefides, I fee 

 Ton felons with Impatience wait for thee : 

 The FIowWs, methinks, to one another fay. 

 Where s Anthony, that he's not here to day ? 

 Is it the Wake, or for fome new-made Saint, 

 Do we our Drink jo long, thd thirfty, want ? 

 Something's falVn out, or why has he forgot 

 To handle, as he's wont, the Watring-pot. 



iWr.Ozell. 



His Thoughts on the Happinefs of a Coun- 

 try Life, addrcfs'd to Lamoignon, are per- 

 haps 



