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maxims on particular cafes. Which how- 

 ever if taken either way, is the lefs to be 

 wondered at in this ingenious countrymaa 

 of ours, as fo great a foreigner and withal 

 vegetable naturalift, and of a nation fam'd 

 for their correclnefs in all treatifes of that 

 kind, has fall'n ;into the Hke mifapplicati- 

 on, feemingly of the beforementioned verfes 5 

 I mean Rapin • I know not otherv/ife how 

 to account for his poetry, than as a para- 

 phrafe, or tranfpofition only of Virgil'^ 

 words ; tlius englifhed by Mr. Gardiner. 



Soon as in ftrength advancing ev'ry year. 

 The trees on deeper roots their bodies rear. 

 The fwain no proud exuberance allows. 

 But wifely prunes the too luxuriant boughs. 

 Left with unequal weight the trunk fhould 

 bend, 



And all the fap in ufelefs branches fpend. 

 Thus early lopt^ while tender yet and young. 

 They rife from earth more obftinate and 

 ftrong. 



And this he inculcates under the article of 

 Groves, 



There is, and ever was a latent tyran- 

 ny in the fingle injundlions of great men ; 



D z and 



