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may find a great deal of noble Diverfion, and 

 that, amongft the reft, that will perpetuate 

 his Name a great deal more than many Di- 

 ver fions very much in ufe, which are very 

 tranfitory ^ and like the dainty Bit of the 

 Glutton, pleafes fcarce any longer than they 

 are upon the tip of the Tongue, if they 

 don't too often prove Bitter, even in that 

 point too. 



Tis without difpute, that Mafonry is now 

 in its higheft Perfedion: And if Statuary 

 were fo too, what ftanding Monuments might 

 not the prefent Age ereft for Pofterity to 

 know them by ? 



Tis this, among a few other things, that 

 has drawn the great Concourfe of Nobility 

 and Gentry to admire and court that darling 

 Miftrefs of the World, Italy^ where the 

 High-ways and Publick Places are faid to be 

 crouded with Statues and Monuments in me- 

 mory of their deceafed Hero's and Great Men, 

 and their Gardens with all the Magnificence 

 which that Art can furnifti. 



But fuch is our Misfortune in England^ 

 that we have not only very few Inftances 

 of this Publick and Noble Good in the Open 

 Roads 3 but likewife our Gardens are very 

 deftitute of any thing that is Good in that 

 kind, at leaft very diminutively, only in 

 a few Leaden lame Copies, abounding with 

 all the Incongruities I have before men- 

 tionU 



I might. 



