ARGUMENT of the FOURTH BOOK. The poft comes in.-The news-paper is read.-The world contemplated at a distance. Address to Winter. The rural amusements of a winter evening compared with the fashionable ones.-Address to evening.-A brown ftudy.-Fall of Snow in the evening. The waggoner.-A poor family piece.The rural thief.-Public houfes.-The multitude of them cenfured.-The farmer's daughter, what She was.-What she is.-The fimplicity of country manners almoft loft.-Causes of the change.-DeJertion of the country by the rich.-Neglect of magiftrates.-The militia principally in fault.-The new recruit and his transformation.-Reflection on bodies corporate. The love of rural objects natural to all, and never to be totally extinguished. THE TAS K. BOOK IV. THE WINTER EVENING. HARK! 'tis the twanging horn! o'er yonder bridge That with its wearifome but needful length News from all nations lumb'ring at his back. " And having dropp'd th' expected bag—pass on. F 5 Ha He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Or charg'd with am'rous fighs of abfent fwains, His horfe and him, unconfcious of them all. That |