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" The leveiPd towns with weeds lie cover'd o*er^ 
"The hollow winds thro' naked temples roar; 
Hound broken columns clasping ivy twin'd ; 
" O'er heaps of ruin stalk'd the stately Hind ; 
s( The Fox obscene to gaping tombs retires, 
" And Wolves with howling fill the sacred choirSa 
" Aw'd by his Nobles, by his Commons curst, 
" Th> oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst, 
" Stretch'd o'er the Poor^ and Church, his iron roty 
" And treats alike his V&ssaU and his God: 
u Whom ev'n the Saxon spar'd, and bloody Dane 3 
16 The wanton victims of his sport remain. 
" But see the man whose spacious regions gave 
" A waste for beasts, himself deny'd a grave ! 
'* Stretch'd on the lawn his second hope survey, 
" At once the chaser aW at once the prey* 
" Lo Rufus tugging at the deadly dart, 
i( Bleeds in the forest like a wounded Hart S 
" Succeeding Monarchs heard the Subjects' crieS| 
Nor saw displeas'd the peaceful cottage rise.'* 
The Barons also for a long time imitated 
the encroachments as well as the amusements 
of the Monarch. But when the feudal in* 
stitutions at length gave way, when property 
became not only more equally divided, but its 
rights successfully maintained, these extensive 
hunting grounds became more defined and 
limited, and as the incitements to tillage and 
husbandry increased by & greater demand for 
its productions, those vast tracts of land, be^ 
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