Records of the Old Charlton Hunt 



to tell the Chace ; and sing the Goddefs praise ; 



till Graftons Duke, and Burlington came down, 



to see their Sport, so farr beyond their own ; 



then Boyle, by instinct all divine began, 



is this an Edifice for such a Band ? 



I'll have the Honour to erect a Room, 



shall Cost Diana's Train, but such a Sum ; 



they all agreed, and quickly paid it down, 



and now, there stands a sacred Dome [Foxhall], Confes't 



the finest in the Country, most admird. 

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And now the Silvan Queen began to think. 



Recruits would soon be wanting, to her Train, 



young Novices She brought incUn'd to Sport, 



and plac'tem all under Ropero's care ; 



to be innitiate in her Rural Rights, 



and learn of him, the practice of the Field ; 



The Downy N[assau] first she brought, a Youth, 



well made, and fair Boltona's chiefest care, 



and then tall W[es]t, of Old Patrician Race, 



whose warlike Ancestors at Bosgrove lye, 



this Youth adept, to all he undertook, 



soon took to hunting, and forsook his Book ; 



the Old Man pleas'd, with so apt a Schollar 



calld him his Son ; and wisht for such another, 



W — t in return, did all he could to please, 



he walkt, he talkt, he drefs't, his bootes, his Sleeves, 



nay more his very shape, was grown like his. 



But Lo ! the fatal Catastrophe draws near, 

 Ropero, quite worn out with years, tho full 



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