64 FROM A MIDDLESEX GARDEN 



ment and comely grace, for there be made of them garlendes 

 for the heade, nosegaies and poesies which are delightfull and 

 pleasant to smelle to, speaking nothing of their appropriate 

 vertues ; yea, gardens themselves receive by them the greatest 

 ornament of all, chiefest beauty and most gallant grace ; and 

 the recreation of the minde which is taken heerby cannot but 

 be verie good and honest for theys admonish and stir up a 

 man to that which is comely and honest, for flowres, through 

 their beautie, varieties of colour, and exquisite form do bring 

 to a liberall and gentle minde the remembrance of honesty, 

 comelinesse, and all kinds of vertues." 



