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 Field becomes enamelled, and Colours contend with Sweets which hall ravih her mot.

So charming may he now appear; and you the feather’d Choriters of Nature, whoe weetet Notes not even Handel can excel, tune your melodious Throats, to celebrate her Appearance. From Love proceeds your Muic, and to Love it returns. Awaken therefore that gentle Paion in every Swain: for lo! adorned with all the Charms in which Nature can array her; bedecked with Beauty, Youth, Sprightlines, Innocence, Modety, and Tendernes, breathing Sweetnes from her roy Lips, and darting Brightnes from her parkling Eyes, the lovely Sophia comes.

Reader, perhaps thou hat een the Statue of the Venus de Medicis. Perhaps too, though hat een the Gallery of Beauties at Hampton-Court. Thou may’st remember each bright Churchill of the Gallaxy, and all the Toats of the Kit-Cat. Or if their Reign was before thy Times, at leat though hat een their Daughters, the no les dazling Beauties of the preent Age; whoe Names, hould we here inert, we apprehend they would fill the whole Volume.