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THE CHACE.
Book I.
And with one mutual Cry insult the Fall'n!Emblem too just of Man's degen'rate Race.
Others apart by native Instinct led,Knowing Instructor! 'mong the ranker GrassCull each salubrious Plant, with bitter Juice 210Concoctive stor'd, and potent to allayEach vitious Ferment. Thus the Hand divineOf Providence, beneficent and kindTo all his Creatures, for the Brutes prescribesA ready Remedy, and is himself 215Their great Physician. Now grown stiff with Age,And many a painful Chace, the wise old HoundRegardless of the frolick Pack, attendsHis Master's Side, or slumbers at his EaseBeneath the bending Shade; there many a Ring 220Runs o're in Dreams; now on the doubtful FoilPuzzles perplex'd, or Doubles intricate

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