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We trace with glowing Ereaft and piercing Look
The curious Calery of th’ iliuftrious Duke,
Where all thofe Mailers of the Arts divine.
With Pencils, Pens, and Chizels greatly thine,
Immortalizing the Augujian Age,
On Medalis, Canvafs, Stone, or written Page.
Profiles and Bulls Originals exprefs,
And antique Scrols, old e'er we knew the Prefs.
For's Love to Science, and each virtuous Scof,
May Days unnumber’d be great Cofniue' Lot.
The fweet Jiefperian Fields you’ll next explore,
’Twixt Arrms Banks and ’Tiler's fertile Shore.
Now, now I with my Organs could keep Pace
With my fond Mufe and you thefe Plains to trace,
We’d enter 'Rome with an uncommon Talle,
And feed our Minds on every famous Walle ;
Amphitheatres, Columns, Royal Tombs,
Triumphal Arches, Ruins of vail Domes,
Old aerial Aquedutfls, and llrong pav’d Roads,
Which feem to’ve been not wrought by Men, but Gods.
Thefe view’d, we’d then furvey with outmoll Care
What modern Rome produces fine or rare,
Where Buildings rife with all the Strength of Art,
Proclaiming their great Architect's Defert,
Which Citron Shades furround and Jeffamine,
And all the Soul of Raphael fln'nes within :
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