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old man's heart is gladden'd with the after 

 profped of fome favourite Oak of his then 

 rearing up, 



-feris faBura nepotibus umbram. 



The young gentleman that embarks in thefc 

 operations as foon as he is of age, or a little 

 after, on pdants but twenty, or twenty five 

 feet high, from the ground to their fummits, 

 and growing in tender — fucculent — un£hious 

 foils — in cafe he lives to fixty years himfelf, 

 has the never dying pleafure all that while, 

 to find them encreafing to, and at lafl en- 

 creafed to the better half, between thirty 

 and forty feet high, clear in body to their 

 jSrft boughs : Altho' it muil be treble and 

 quadruple his own age, that gives them their 

 finifhed magnitude : But hence in the in- 

 terim refults a new joy, mz. That fuch an 

 agreeable transfiguration of his Oaks from 

 what they otherwife would have been, will, 

 fiiperior to the common endearments of he- 

 reditary polTeflions of the like, engage his 

 afFedtions ; as having a kind of new exift- 

 ence owing to himfelf by fuch fingular modi- 

 fication i and will leave a more pleafing as 

 well as more lafting memorial of him. to 

 J his 



