MEMOIRS OP 



The furly Brute, impatient of difdain, 

 And fpurns the foil with irritated hoofj 

 Himfelf inhaler of the dufty fod; 

 Himfelf infulted by the pebbly mower, 

 Which his vain fury raifes. Nothing fear'd, 

 Let him, incens'd, from agitated lungs 

 Blow his fhrill trump acute till echo ring, 

 And, with a leer of malice, deal away, 

 Affault and vengeance fwearing ere be long ! 



The laft com'mand of the Botanic God- 

 defs to her Water- Nymphs, enforces their 

 duties to plants and flowers ; to render the 

 vales irriguous, and to feed with their rills 

 the floral and herbaceous roots. To the 

 courfe of this moift nutriment through the 

 vegetable fibres, is compared that of the 

 chyle through the human frame ; and to 

 that, another fimile fucceeds. As the firft 

 is fcientific, fb is the fecond pi<flurefque ; 

 it is a Turkifli pilgrimage to Mecca, con- 

 fifting of various caravans on their road 

 over the fultry and fandy defert, and meet- 

 ing with a pure rill, which, defcending 

 from diflant rocks, had taken it's courfe 



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