THE GARDEN BY A. COWLEY 



(to which you are rich enough to allow great T he 

 legacies), yet the issue of this seems to be de- happiness 

 signed by you to the main of the estate; you have of a 

 taken most pleasure in it, and bestowed most ' 

 charges upon its education: and I doubt not to 

 see that book, which youare pleased to promise 

 to the world, and of which you have given us a 

 large earnest in your calendar, as accomplished, 

 as anything can be expected from an extraor- 

 dinary wit, and no ordinary expenses, and a long 

 experience. I knownobody thatpossesses more 

 private happiness than you do in your garden; 

 and yet no man, who makes his happiness more 

 public, by a free communication of the art and 

 knowledge of it toothers. All that I myself am 

 able yet to do, is only to recommend to mankind 

 the search of that felicity, which you instruct 

 them how to find and to enjoy. 



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Happy art thou, whom God does bless 

 With the full choice of thine own happiness; 



And happier yet, because thou'rt blest 



With prudence, how to choose the best; 

 In books and gardens thou hast plac'd aright 



(Things, which thou well dostunderstand; 



