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that they both damp'd his mirth snd 

 took up fo much of his time and 

 thoughts, that he himfelfe had not 

 leifure to take the fweet content that 

 I, who pretended no title, took in 

 his fields; for I could there fit quiet- 

 ly, and looking on the water, fee 

 fifties leaping af Flies of feveral 

 fhapesand colours; looking on the 

 Hils, could behold tLern Ipotted 

 with Woods 3nd Groves ; looking 

 down the Meadows, could fee here a 

 Boy gathering Lilies and Lady- 

 fmocksy and there a Girle cropping 

 Culver keys and Cow/lips, all to make 

 Garlands futable to this pleafant 

 Month of May; thefeand many o- 

 ther Field -flowers fo perfum'd the 

 air,that I thought this Meadow like 

 the field in Sicily (of which Diodorus 

 fpeaks) where the perfumes arifing 

 from the pL/ce, makes all dogs that 

 hunt in it.to fall off,and to lofe their 

 hotteft fent. I fay, as I thus fate 

 joying in mine own happy conditi- 

 on, and pittying that rich mans that 



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