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their Orchards? made and prepared, dressed and destinated for 

 that purpose to renew and refresh their sences, and to call home 

 their over-wearied spirits. Nay, it is (no doubt) a comfort to 

 them, to set open their Cazements into a most delicate Garden 

 and Orchard, whereby they may not only see that, wherein they 

 are so much delighted, but also to give fresh, sweete, and pleasant 

 ayre to their Galleries and Chambers. 



What can your eye desire to see, your eares to heare, your 

 mouth to taste, or your nose to smell, that is not to be had in 

 an Orchard ? with abundance and variety ? What more delight- 

 some than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers ? decking 

 with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universal! 

 Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the 

 world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire 

 the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely 

 the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and 

 spirit. 



The Rose red, damaske, velvet, and double double province 

 Rose, the sweet muske Rose double and single, the double and 

 single white Rose. The faire and sweet senting Woodbind, 

 double and single. Purple Cowslips, and double Cowslips, 

 Primrose double and single. The Violet nothing behinde the 

 best, for smelling sweetly. And 1000 more will provoke your 

 content. 



And all these, by the skill of your Gardiner, so comely, and 

 orderly placed in your Borders and Squares, and so intermingled, 

 that none looking thereon, cannot but wonder, to see, what Nature 

 corrected by Art can doe. 



When you behold in divers corners of your Orchard Mounts of 

 stone, or wood curiously wrought within and without, or of earth 

 covered with fruit trees : Kentish Cherry, Damsons, plummes, etc. 

 With stares of precious workmanship And in some corner (or 

 more) a true Dyall or Clock, and some Anticke works, and 

 especially silver s(o)unding Musique, mixt Instruments and 

 voyces, gracing all the rest : How will you be rapt with delight ? 



Large walks, broad and long, close and open, like the Teftipe 



