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cafe was, his eye having been thus accuftomed 

 to the beautiful forms of nature, had gotten 

 rid of it's prejudices -, and being a rational man, 

 he faw the matter in it's proper light. 



I fhall conclude my remarks on this cruel 



mutilation, with an epigram by Voltaire. 



That celebrated wit was in England about the 

 time, when the barbarous cuftom of docking 

 horfes was in high fafhion. He was fo 

 fhocked at it, that he wrote the following 

 verfes, which, it is faid, he gave to lord 

 Lyttleton. 



Vous, fiers Anglois, barbares que vous etes, 

 Coupez la tete aux rois, la queue aux betes : 

 Nos, Francois, plus polls et plus aimants des loix, 

 Laiflent la queue aux betes, et la tete aux rois. 



There is more indignation, than wit, I 

 think, in thefe verfes. Voltaire feems to con- 

 ' fider docking a horfe, and killing a king, as 

 equal crimes -, which however is carrying the 

 matter fomewhat farther, than the pidturefque 

 eye wifhes to carry it. 



The fame abfurd notions, which have led 

 men to cut off the tails of horfes, have led 



them 



