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rather wishes than precepts, and in that quality I will pass 

 them over. Yet I must withal say that in the seating of our- 

 selves (whirh is a kind of marriage to a place) builders 

 should be as circunispcct as wooers, lest when all is done, that 

 doom bofal us, which our master (Vitruvius) doth lay upon 

 Myteline " a Town in truth, saith he, finely built, but foolishly 

 planted,"* 



Of the style to be admired in Gardening he is as concise; 

 the little ho says however is just, and evinces that correct taste 

 which dictates, that though the grounds at l:uge, byjdegrecs as 

 we proceed from the mansion, should become irregular and imi- 

 tations of picturesque nature, yet in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of the house. Art should bo more manifest. " I must note 

 a certain contrariety between building and gardening, for as 

 fabricks should bo regular, gardens should be irregular, or at 

 least cast into a very wild regularity. To exemplify my con- 

 ceit, I have seen a Garden, for the manner perchance incom- 

 parable, into which the first access was a high walk like a 

 Terrace, from whence might be taken a general view of the 

 whole Plot below, but rather in delightful confusion, than 

 with any plain distinction of the species. From this the 

 beholder descending many steps was afterwards conveyed 

 again by several mountings and valings, to various entertain- 

 ments of his scent and sight, which I shall not need to describe 

 for that were poetical, let me only note this, that every one of 

 these diversities, was as if he had been magically transported 

 into a new garden. But though other countrys have more 

 benefit of Sun than we, and thereby more proi)erly tied to 

 contemplate this delight, yet have I seen in our own, a dehcato 

 and diligent curiosity, surely without parellel among foreign 

 nations, namely, in the Garden of Sir Henry Fenshaw, at his 

 seat in Ware Park, where I well remember, he did so precisely 

 examine the tinctures and seasons of his flowers, that in their 



• Reliquioe Wottoniaaae, edited by Ijaac Walton. 3rd Edit. p. 9. 



