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of time is conſumed, a great deal of danger is incurred (4). Far other are the pure repaſts of rural Pan, far other the kindly nouriture which the living herbs afford:
The living herbs that ſpring profuſely wild
O’er all the deep-green earth, beyond the power
Of botaniſt to number up their tribes:
But who their virtues can declare, who pierce,
With viſion pure, into thoſe ſecret ſtores
Of health, and life, and joy, the food of man,
While yet he lived in innocence, and told
A length
