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Chap. 2. you for a while, and observe the several troops of Flowers, together with the manner of their growth. Behold how this uncupps, and that unsheathes, and this other swells it self out of the rich inclosure of it's Gemm-like Bud. See how suddenly the one expires, and the other shoots out to succeed it; to conclude, observe in any one kind of them, the Beauty, Forme, and Appearance, a thousand wayes divers and the same. What Mind is there so rigid, that in such entertainments as these, will not withdraw and melt it self, into soft and pleasing Meditations? Let the curious Eye dwell a while upon those Orient and dazeling Colours: Behold this native Purple, this Blood, this Ivory, this Snow, this Flame, this Gold, and such diversity of Colours; as a skilful Pencil may possibly emulate, but can never be able to express? To conclude what exhaling Odors, what subtile and pierc- Rh