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When we mean to build, <br /> We first survey the plot, then draw the model,• <br /> And when we see the figure of the house; <br /> Then we must rate the cost of the erection; <br /> Which if we find outweighs ability, <br /> What do we then draw but anew the model <br /> In fewer offices, or at least desist <br /> to build at alfa Much more, in this great <br /> work <br /> Which is almost to pluck kingdom down <br /> And set another up, should we survey <br /> The plot of situation and the mode[, <br /> • Consent upon a sure foundation, <br /> Question surveyors, know our own estate, <br /> How able such a work to undergo, <br /> To weigh against his opposite; or else <br /> We fortify in paper and in figures, <br /> ?Using the names of men instead of men: <br /> Like one that draws the model of a house <br /> Beyond his power to build it; who ha f <br /> through <br /> Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost <br /> A nake subject to the weeping clouds <br /> And waste for churtsh wintr's tyranny. <br /> Henry IN <br />