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Its ftanding pleafure, and intrinfic worth, 

 The body's virtue, and the foul's good fortune* 

 health. 



Methinks I fee great Dioclejlan walk 



In the Salotzian garden's noble {hade, 

 Which by his own imperial hands was made : 



I fee him fmile, methinks, as he does talk 



With the ambaffador, who came in vain 



T'entice him to a throne again : 

 If I, my friends, faid he, mould to you (how 

 - All the delights which in thefe gardens grow, 



'Tis likelier much that you mould with me flay* 



Than 'tis that you mould carry me away : 



And truft me not, my friends, if every day 

 I walk not here with more delight 



Than ever after the moft happy fight, 



In triumph to the capitol I rod, 

 To thank the Gods, and to be thought myfelf a God, 



Mr. Coivlev's paffion for retirement was indeed very 

 Ilrong ; but might he not well fay, " Is there not a 

 caufer" He had been converfant in high and public 

 life, and was very glad to leave 



Thofe dangerous pofts, where cuftoms ill agree 

 With virtuous rules, or found philofophy. 



As one reafon for his going out from Sodom (as he 

 fpeaks) to his little Zoar> he afks, 



Who that has reafon and his fmell, 

 Would not among rofes and jafmin dwell, 

 ^ Rather than all his fpirits choak 

 With exhalations of dirt and fmoak ; 

 And all th' uncleannefs which does drown 

 In peftilential clouds a- populous town. 



Another poet (Ckricus) retiring from town to a co& 

 tags and a garden^ fays, 



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