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be Ictt at 3 /. rent ; but now it is much 

 higher. The average quantity of milk, 

 four or five gallons. To three cows they 

 generally keep two pigs : And feven they 

 reckon the proper number for a dairy maid. 

 Barley ftraw is the winter food till Candle- 

 masy then fome hay, of the latter about a 

 ton to a cow. They are kept all winter in 



" Till old experience do attain, 

 <c To fomething like prophetic (train, 

 " Thefe pleafures, Melancholy, give, 

 " And I with thee will chufe to live." 



// Penferofo. 

 Winding down, you come to a root cave by 

 the water's edge; a retired fpot-, and at the 

 other end of the pond a cave of grotto work. 



Coining out of the grove, and rifmg the hill, 

 you command to the left, as you move, a moil 

 beautiful view of the country, a noble fv/eep of 

 inclofures of a charming verdure, to a bench, 

 from which you look into the vale on the houfe 

 at your tcet, with a fweet little ftream ferpen- 

 tining by it. And then to another bench in- 

 fcribed from Milton : 



" Thefe are thy glorious works, Parent of 



Good ! 

 " Almighty ! thine this everlafting frame, 

 " Thus wondrous fair ! Thyfelf how won- 

 drous then, 

 " Unfpeakable! who fits above thefe heavens 

 " To us invifible, or dimly (cen 

 " In thefe thy Jowcft works •, yet thefe declare 

 u Thy goodnefs beyond thought, and power 

 divine." 



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