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 The Four Seafons. 1 7 1

The clocking hen her chirping chickins" leads With wings & beak defends them from the gleads, My next and laft is fruitfull pleafant Alay, Wherein the earth is clad in rich aray, The Sun now enters loving Gemini, And heats us with the glances of his eye. Our thicker-^ rayment makes us lay alide Left by his fervor we be torrifi'd/ All flowers the Sun now with his beams difclofes/' Except the double pinks and matchlefs Roles. Now fwarms the bufy, witty/ honey-Bee, Whole praife deferves a page from more then me The cleanly Hufwifes Dary's now in th' prime, Her fhelves and lirkins fill'd for winter time. The meads with Cowflips, Honey-fuckles dight, One hangs his head, the other ftands upright: But both rejo3^ce at th' heavens clear fmiling face, More at her fhowers, which water them a fpace.. For fruits my Seafon 3'ields the early Cherry, The hafty Peas, and wholfome cooP Strawberry. More folid fruits require a longer time. Each Seafon hath his fruit, lb hath each Clime: Each man his own peculiar excellence, But none in all that hath preheminence.

<" chipping brood now.

/ Winter. ^ terrifi'd.

/« All flowers before the lun-beames now dilcloles.

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