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Show I. '7 j Thro, North and Weft $ 'till antient Britons chofe The Royal Art In ev'ry Part, And Roman Architecture could difcTofe, Until the Saxons warlike Rage Dcftroy'd the Skill of many an Age. X. At length the Got hick Style Prevaifd in Britain's life, When Mafon'sGrand Defign reviv'd, And in their well ferrrf d Lodges thriv'd, Tho not as formerly in Roman Days: Yet fing the Farm Of Saxons, Da>;c^, Ot Scots, We^Iriftjj but fing firi? thc-Praife Of Athelftan*&ti& Edwrn Prince, Our Mafter of great Influence. XI. And eke the Norman Kings The Britifh Mafcn fuiik ( Tut Roman otyle revived there, And Britifh Crowns unitcdwere In leaded James, a Mafon King, who rais'd fine Heaps of Stones hy Inigo Jones, Thatnvafd wife Paikidio, juftly prais'd In Italy and Britain too, - for Architecture firm and true,; B 3 XII And '. - Tf.A. T, /fv&A- ft. 4 \ * |