52 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



continuing you reach a spot wherein is built a little chapel, and 

 a little house with a hermitage rock, situated in the middle of a 

 lake, with a square margin, and round this are little alleys for 

 walking, to enter which you must pass a small swing-gate. Near 

 to this is a small garden, and therein many pedestals, on which 

 are placed whole figures 3 or 4 feet high, and of every kind of 

 device ; therewith, some alleys (Bercees), covered with hazel-trees. 

 — ^ Les plus excellent s Bastiments de France,^ 1576-9. 



CONRAD \1^^^ when Thrasybulus, travailing in the affayres of his prince, 



HERESBACH i^ chaunced to come to the house of Marius, and carried by 

 U509-157 ) j^jj^ jj^^Q ^ Garden that he had, which was very beautifull, being 



BARNABY led about among the sweet smelling flowres, and under the pleasant 

 GOOGE Arbours, what a goodly sight (quoth Thrasybulus) is heere : how 



excellently have you garnished this paradise of yours with all 

 kinde of pleasures : your Parlers, and your banketting houses 

 both within and without, as all bedecked with pictures of beauti- 

 full Flowres and Trees, that you may not onely feede your eyes 

 with the beholding of the true and lively Flower, but also delight 

 yourselfe with the counterfait in the midst of winter, seeing in 

 the one, the painted flower to contend in beautie with the very 

 flower ; in the other, the wonderfuU worke of Nature, and in both 

 the passing goodness of God. Moreover, your pleasant Arbours 

 to walke in, whose shaddowes keepe off the heate of the sunne, 

 and if it fortune to raine, the cloisters are hard by. But specially 

 this little River, with most cleere water, encompassing the garden, 

 doth wonderfully set it forth, and herewithall the greene and goodly 

 quickset hedges, no chargeable kinde of enclosures, differeth it 

 both from Man and Beast. I speake nothing of the well ordered 

 quarters, whereas the Hearbes and Trees are severed every sort 

 in their due place, the Pot-hearbes by themselves, the flowers in 

 another place, the Trees and Impes ^ in another quarter, all in 

 just square and proportion, with Alleis and walkes among them. 



^ Itnp, a graft or shoot. 



