2^4 CHAI>TER 21. 
difeafes of the fex : in which, both antient 
fuperftition, and modern belief, fiipplied 
his mufe v/ith exuberant fources of grati- 
fication. 
In the third. Flora calls forth all his 
powers, in the narciffus, the anemone, the 
violet, and the tulip, with a variety of other 
ornaments of the parterre, from the coro^ 
nary tribe. 
In x\iQ fourth y a more numerous fet of 
the fubordinate embellifliments of the gar- 
den are recorded, in various meafure; among 
which, the attributes of the moly, the lily, 
poppy, funflower, faifron, and amaranth, 
attrad: his mufe with more than ordinary 
attention. . 
In the Jifth, he celebrates, in heroic mea- 
fure, the gifts of Pomonay from the native 
produdls of England, to the date of the 
eaft, and the tuna of the weft ; terminating 
his poem with near two hundred lines on 
Columbus, on the Spaniards, on the new 
continent, and in expreffing his hopes that, 
to the devaftations of conqueft, will foon 
fucceed peace, religion, arts, and fcience. 
In the laji, he difplays the fylvan fcene^ 
from 
