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22 It gently mitigates, Companion fit Of Pleasantry, and Wine; nor to the Bards Unfriendly, when they to the vocal Shell Warble melodious their well-labour'd Songs. She found the polish'd Glass, whose small Convex Enlarges to ten Millions of Degrees The Mite, invisible else, of Nature's Hand Least Animal; and shews, what Laws of Life The Cheese-Inhabitants observe, and how Fabrick their Mansions in the harden'd Milk, Wonderful Artists! But the hidden Ways Of Nature wouldst thou know? how first she frames All things in Miniature? thy Specular Orb Apply to well-dissected Kernels; lo! Strange Forms arise, in each a little Plant Unfolds its Boughs: observe the slender Threads Of first-beginning Trees, their Roots, their Leaves, In narrow Seeds describ'd; Thou'lt wond'ring say, Rh