WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY 29 



emulate the stars. The plain there is as level as the sea, which 

 with green grass allures the eye, and so smooth that there is 

 nought to hinder him who runs through it. Neither is therein 

 any waste place : for in some parts are apple trees, in other 

 vines, which are either spread on the ground or raised on poles. 

 A mutual strife is there between nature and art; so that what 

 one produces not, the other supplies. 



