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Clergy^ as they have had leifure and an ap- 

 propriate genius, have joined their refearches 

 therein, and withal have not envied the 

 pubHck the knov^ledge of their ingenious 

 difcoveries. 



Still any fuccefsful attempts about the 

 culture of this juft pride of the Britannick 

 IJle have at leaft remained unpublifhed ; 

 and the neglected Oaken minor has beea 

 left to the Tuition of ruftic hinds and wood- 

 wards, or what is better, to none at all. 

 Therefore without danger of being thought 

 arrogant in thinking my felf their fuperior ; 

 as 1 4cnew all the fhelves and fands on which 

 they had been flranded ; I kept ftill on, 

 reafoning with my felf; that, I ought in 

 fome vtry mild and gentle manner to perfue 

 what I defired ; as that dame nature^ like 

 -a coy nymph, might poffibly be gained by 

 foft addreffes, altho' fhe would be forced by 

 none. Perfuant to this, I thought it my 

 bufinefs not to make my advances to her, 

 as one fuperior in rude ftreogth alone ; but 

 obfequioufly to watch each paffion in her, 

 to follow her thro' all her fecret v^indings 

 and turnings, and to order all my motions, 

 and carefTes to her, in conformity to her 



own 



