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Here you may lie and fancy yourself in a wood, 

 with this only difference, that you are not 

 exposed to the weather as you would be there. 

 Here too a fountain rises and instantly disap- 

 pears several marble seats are set in different 

 places, which are as pleasant as the summer- 

 house itself after one is tired out with walking. 

 Near each seat is a little fountain, and through- 

 out the whole hippodrome several small rills 

 run murmuring along through pipes, wherever 

 the hand of art has thought proper to conduct 

 them, watering here and there different plots 

 of green, and sometimes all parts at once. I 

 should have ended before now, for fear of being 

 too chatty, had I not proposed in this letter to 

 lead you into every corner of my house and 

 gardens. Nor do I apprehend your thinking it 

 a trouble to read the description of a place 

 which I feel sure would please you were you to 

 see it ; especially as you can stop just where 

 you please, and by throwing aside my letter, 

 sit down as it were, and give yourself a rest as 

 often as you think proper. Besides, I gave my 

 little passion indulgence, for I have a passion 

 for what I have built, or finished, myself. In a 

 word, (for why should I conceal from my friend 

 either my deliberate opinion or my prejudice ? ) 

 I look upon it as the first duty of every writer 

 to frequently glance over his title-page and 



