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Cv) Which Magazine of Rarities prefents A Gallimaufry of Divertifements ; For beautified by Art, or Nature’s Drefs, They all enamour by their Prettinefs, While the adimiring Crowd, with Captive Eyes, Do Profelyte themfelves to Votaries. Th early Days when Men, unus’d to Rules, Commenc’d by Natural Infalment Fools, When Sacred Ignorance its Umpbrage fpread, And all fat cool and quiet in the Shade, So long the Province of my Reign did know No other Rounds than Earth and Heaven do. Butwhen the World grew light, and hot at Noon, And Dog-flar-Wir made all a Terréd-Zone, Then Qveftious arofe, Men who would know Why Thingswererhbzs and bus, and why not fos Theſe pert, and re‘lefs, flarted Scruples fill, . Painfal to flate, but worfe to reconcile, è Yet well reſolv’d by one diſdainful Smile ; Which hot-brain’d. Tribe, uneafie and morofe, Made all the World an Inguifition-houfe. But now y Crown ſhall be reftor’d anew, And Fale Pretenders thall confels the True; Their long wfurp’d Dominion fhall decline, And die into 2h’ Eftablifhment of mine. Wow let the Worid keep Halcyon, and carefs In endlefs Circles of unftinted Bliſs; Let univerfal Ravifhments increafe Your Joys beyond Defcription or Degrees : Don’t baulk your Humours, lett for want of Vent Your Spirits ftagnate into Sediment ; But frolick on, without confulting Fare, Till your loofe, fhattering Souls evaporate. i 5 Eac
