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he wasting cloister, with the rest^Was, in one instant, dispossessed. At the demolishing, this seatTo Fairfax fell, as by escheat ;And what both nuns and founders willed,Tis likely better thus fulfilled.For if the virgin proved not theirs,The cloister yet remainM hers ;Though many a nun there made her vow,Twas no religious house till now. 280 From that blest bed the hero cameWhom France and Poland yet does fame ;Who, when retired here to peace.His warlike studies could not cease.But laid these gardens out in sportIn the just figure of a fort,And with five bastions it did fence, '^ c ^As aiming one for every sense. ^When in the east the morning rayHangs out the colours of the day, 290 The bee through these known alleys hums.Beating the dian with its drums.Then flowers their drowsy eyelids raise.Their silken ensigns each displays,And dries its pan yet dank with dew.And fills its flask with odours new. 993. — French " diane," the reveille. ,296— The" ppowder-horn. 20s, 296— The "pan" of the musket-lock, and the " flask"
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