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Bellis Prolifera, Hen and Chicken Daify, 

 next becomes an affectionate matron, fur- 

 rounded by" her happy infants. Their 

 childiih. fports, with the infects of the ad- 

 vanced Spring, and with the harebells and 

 primrofes, form a domeftic fcene of tender 

 and lively intereft. In the courfe of it a 

 compound epithet for the Snail brings that 

 reptile inilantly to the eye : 



Admire his eye-tipp'd horns and painted mail -, 



alfo, by the adverb, paufing, " the paufmg 

 " butterfly," is that gay infect recalled to 

 us on it's airy evolutions. Venus and her 

 Loves making arrows for Cupid in Vul- 

 can's forge, is given as a fimile to that 

 fcene ; if fimile it may be called which 

 fimilitude has none. However, the me- 

 chanifm of bow and arrow-making is pre- 

 fented with very amufmg precifion. 



Evidently to fupport a fplendid prelufive 

 defcription of Matlock, and the theory of 



the 



