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CHAP. III.
When Trees are shak'd,* 1.1 but little fruit remains; Iust such a remnant to be Lord pertains.OBSERVATION.
IT is a pleasant sight in Autumn, to see the fruitful bran∣ches hanging full of clusters, which weigh the boughs to the ground.
Aspice curvatos pomorum pondere ramos Vt sua quod peperit vix ferat arbor onus. Which I may thus English, O what a pleasant sight it is to see, The fruit••ul clusters bowing down the tree.But these laden branches are soon eased of their burden, for as soon as they are ripe, the Husbandman ascends the tree, and shaking the limbs with all his might, causes a fruitful shower to fall like hailstones upon the ground below, which being gather'd to a heap, are carried to the pound, broken all to pieces in the trough; and squeez'd to a dry lump in the press, whence all their juice and moisture runs into the Fat. How few escape thi•• Fat, of all those multitudes that grew in the Orchard? If you now look upon the Trees, you may possibly see here one, and there another, two or three upon the outmost branches, but nothing in comparison to the vast numbers that are thus used.
APPLICATION.
THis small remains of fruit, which are either left upon the tree, or gather'd in for an hoard, do well resemble that small number of Gods elect in the world, which free