BOOKOFOLD-WORLDGARDENS 



A lord of mountains, when timeand power enabled, pur- 

 IS sued the dictate of his education, and brought 

 the treasures of the field into rule and circum- 

 scription. So nobly beautifying the hanginggar- 

 dens of Babylon, that he was also thought to be 

 the author thereof. 



Ahasuerus (whom many conceive to have 

 been Artaxerxes Longi-manus),in thecountry 

 and city of flowers, and in an open garden, enter- 

 tained his princes and people, while Vashti 

 more modestly treated the ladies within the 

 palace thereof. 



Butif,assomeopinion,KingAhasueruswere 

 Artaxerxes Memnon,thatfoundalife and reign 

 answerable unto his great memory, our magni- 

 fied Cyrus was his second brother, who gave the 

 occasion of that memorable work, and almost 

 miraculous retreat of Xenophon. A person of 

 highspiritandhonour, naturally aking, though 

 fatally prevented by the harmless chance of 

 post-geniture; not onlya lord of gardens, but a 

 manual planter thereof, disposing his trees, like 

 his armies, in regular ordination. Sothat while 

 old Laertes hath found a name in Homer for 

 pruning hedges, and clearing away thorns and 

 briars; while King Attalus lives for his poison- 



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