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32 his scattered incoherent Pieces into the beautiful Structure of a Poem, as Amphions was to summon the Stones into a Wall, or Orpheuss to lead the Trees a Dance. For certainly, however it happeneth, the Parts are so justly disposed, that You cannot change any Book into the Place of another without spoiling the Proportion, and confounding the Order of the Whole.

The Georgicks are above all Controversy with Hesiod; but Idylliums of Theocritus have something so inimitably Sweet in the Verse and Thoughts, such a native Simplicity, and are so genuine, so natural a Result of Rh