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Chap. 3. ing for the Death of his Lamprey? After the same manner bewail they the Funerals of their Flowers. Now if any of these Candidates of Flora have got any thing more new or rare, O how he boasts it! How do his Corrivals emulate and envy him? Some of whom return no less pensive to their Houses than Sylla or Marcellus when they were rejected in their suit for the Pretorship. What shall I call this but a merry kind of madness? Not unlike to that of children turning pale, and quarrelling for their Topps and Counters. Understand also how these men imploy themselves in their Gardens; they sit, they walk round about, they gape and sleep, and nothing else; as if they intended them not as places of retirement, but as Sepulchres of Sloth. A prophane Generation, and such as I may justly exclude from the Orgyes of the true and sacred Garden, which I know to be con- Rh