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" When you behold in diuers corners of your Orchard 

 Mounts of stone, or wood curiously wrought within and with- 

 out, or of earth couered with fruit-trees : Kentish cherry, 

 damsons, plummes, &c. with staires of precious workman- 

 ship. And in some corner (or moe) a true dyall or Clocke, 

 and some anticke workes, and especially siluer-sounding mu- 

 sique, mixt instruments and voices, gracing all the rest : 

 How will you be rapt with delight ? 



i( Large walkes, broad and long, close and open, like the 

 Tenipe groves in Thessalie, raised with grauell and sand, 

 hauing seats and bankes of cammomile, all this delights the 

 minde, and brings health to the body. 



" View now with delight the workes of your owne hands, 

 your fruit-trees of all sorts, loaden with sweet blossomes, 

 and fruit of all tasts, operations, and colours : your trees 

 standing in comely order which way soeuer you looke. 



" Your borders on euery side hanging and drooping with 

 feberries, raspberries, barberries, currens, and the rootes of 

 your trees powdred with strawberries, red, white, and greene, 

 what a pleasure is this? Your gardner can frame your lesser 

 wood to the shape of men armed in the field, ready to giue 

 battell : or swift running greyhounds : or of well sented and 

 true running hounds, to chase the deere, or hunt the hare. 

 This kind of hunting shall not waste your corne, nor much 

 your coyne. 



" Mazes well framed a mans height, may perhaps make 

 your friends wander in gathering of berries, till he cannot 

 recouer himselfe without your helpe. 



"To haue occasion to exercise within your Orchard: 

 it shall be a pleasure to haue a bowling alley, or rather 



