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also woven into stockings, gloves, and other 
articles; and finally, the Cocoon, when the silk is 
wound off it, is used for making artificial flowers, 
and is considered to be the best imitation of 
nature, when painted and made up: but it is 2 
very poor one, for nothing that man can make 
equals the flowers of the field, and man has, after 
all, no materials of his own ; he only uses those 
which the silk-worm, or sheep, or plant, had 
worn before, 
LESSON YL 
AGAINST PRIDE IN OLOTHES, 
How proud we are! how fond to shew 
Our clothes, and call them rich and new! 
When the poor sheep and silk-worms wore 
That very clothing long before. 
The tulip and the butterfly 
Appear in gayer coats than I ; 
Let me be drest fine as I will, 
Flies, worms, and flow’rs exceed me stül. 
Then will I set my heart to find 
Inward adornings of the mind; 
Knowledge and virtue, truth and gracc, 
These are the robes of richest dress. 
No more shall worms with me compare; 
This is the raiment angels wear; 
The Son of Ged. when here below, 
Pt an this blest apporr! to,