S6 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



colores, pratonim fr^itices} etc.; to disport in some pleasant plain, 

 needs be a delectable recreation. Hortwn pri?tcipis et donius ad 

 delectationem facta, cum sylva, tnonte ef piscina, vulgo la Montagria : 

 the prince's garden at Ferrara Schottus^ highly magnifies, with 

 the groves, mountains, ponds, for a delectable prospect, he was 

 much affected with it ; a Persian paradise, or pleasant park, could 

 not be more delectable in his sight. St Bernard, in the descrip- 

 tion of his monastery, is almost ravished with the pleasures of it. 

 A sick man ^ (saith he) sits upon a green bank, and when the dog- 

 star parcheth the Plains, a?id dries up rivers, he lies in a shady 

 bow7'e ! Fronde sub arborea ferventia temperat astra, and feeds 

 his eyes with variety of objects, herbs, trees, to comfort his niisery, 

 he receives many delightso7ne smells, and fills his ears ivith that sweet 

 a?td various harmony of Birds : good God (saith he) what a com- 

 pa?ty of pleasures hast thou made for man! He that should be 

 admitted on a sudden to the sight of such a Palace as that of 

 Escjirial in Spain, or to that which the Moors built at Granado, 

 Fountenblewe in France, the Turks gardens in his seraglio, wherein 

 all manner of Birds and beasts are kept for pleasure ; Wolves, 

 Bears, lynces, Tygers, Lyons, Elephants, etc. or upon the banks 

 of that Thracian Bosphorus : the Pope's Belvedere in Rome ^ as 

 pleasing as those Horti pe?tsiles in Babylon, or that Indian King's 

 delightsome garden in jElian-/^ or those famous gardens of the 

 Lord Cantelow in France,^ could not choose, though he were 

 never so ill apaid, but be much recreated for the time; or 

 many of our Noblemens gardens at home. — The Attatomy of 

 Melancholy. 



^ Theophylact. 



2 Itinerar. Ital. 



'^ Sedet agrotus cespite viridi, et cum inclementia Canicularis terras excoquit, 

 et siccat flumina, ipse securus sedet sub arborea fronde, et ad doloris sui 

 solatium, naribus suis gramineas redolet species, pascit oculos herbarum 

 amcena viriditas, aures suavi modulamine demulcet pictaram concentus avium, 

 etc. Deus bone, quanta pauperibus procuras solatia ! 



^ Diod. Siculus, lib. 2. 



5 Lib. 13, De Animal, cap. 13. 



« Pet. Gillius, Paul Hentznerus, Itinerar. Italise, 1617 ; lod. Sincerus, 

 Itinerar. Gallise, 161 7 ; Simp. lib. i, quest. 4. 



