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The Works of the Right Honourable Sir Chas. Hanbury Williams

... From the Originals in the Possession of His Grandson The Right Hon. The Earl of Essex and Others: With Notes by Horace Walpole ... In Three Volumes, with Portraits

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On the Earl of Islay altering his Gardens at Whitton, near Hounslow-Heath.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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On the Earl of Islay altering his Gardens at Whitton, near Hounslow-Heath.

OLD Islay, to shew a most elegant taste,
In improving his grounds, purloin'd from the waste;
And order'd the gard'ner to open his views,
By cutting a couple of grand avenues.
With secret delight, he saw the first view end,
In his fav'rite prospect, a church that is ruined;
But, what should the next to his Lordship exhibit,
'Twas the terrible sight of a rogue and a gibbet.

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A view so ungraceful, then taught him to muse on
Full many a Campbell who'd died with his shoes on;
All amazed, and aghast, at this ominous scene,
He order'd it straight, to be shut up again,
With a clump of Scotch firs by way of a screen.