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196 ceptable to us at his return; through the interposition of the dew-engendring Night; and those black Curtains which she shuts him out with. The Summer is a most pleasant season, but yet the winter sets it off, with it's icy marbles, and hoary Frosts: Which if you take away, you really destroy the true rellish, and that particular gust of Joy, which it's light and Warmth afford us. In this Country of ours, one and the same face of things delights me not; but I am pleasingly affected to behold the Valleys and Hills, and Rocks, fruitful and wast places, Meadows and Woods, for satiety and loathing are alwayes the Companions of Equality. And why then in this Scene of life (as I may so call it) should the same dress and countenance of things delight us? In my Mind it should not: Let there be sometimes some smooth and Halcyon Calmes; and let those after a while be discom- Rh