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Show TO ABRAHAM COWLEY Bis kHis Second Edition of my Hortilan Kalens dar is yours, mindful 6f the honour once conferr'd on it, when you were pleas'd. to oo fufpend your nobler Raptures; and think it worthyyourtranfcribing. It appears now with fome advantages which it then wanted; becaufe it had notthat of publifhing to the World, how infinitely I magnifie your contempt of (not to fay) revenge uponit 3 whilft you ftill continue inthepoffeffion ofyour Self, and of that repofe which few men underftand, in exchange for thofe pretty miferies you have ellay'd: Othe {weet Evenings and Mornings, and all the Day befides which are yours, ful while Cowley’s made The happy Tennantof the Shade | And the Suziri his Garden, gives himall he defires, and all that he would enjoy5 the puricy of vifible Obje&s, and ot true Nature before fhe was vitiated by Impofture or Luxury! turd Books, Wife Difcourfe, Gardens andFields, Andallthejoys that unmixt Nature yields, Cowleys Mifcellanies. You gather the firft Rofes ofthe Spring, and Apples of only Autumn: And as the Philofopher in Seneca defir’d Bread and Herbs todifpute felicity with Fupiter ; Youvie happinefs ina thoufandeafie, and {weet Diverfions; not ; the forgetting the innocent Toils which You cultivate and Leifure and the Liberty, the Books, the Meditations, above all, the learned and choice Friendfbips that you enjoy : Who would not, pre Cacherfavie ? — a2 the |