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nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green 

 grass kept finely shorn ; the other, because it 

 will give you a fair alley in the midst, by which 

 you may go in front upon a stately hedge, 

 which is to enclose the garden ; but because the 

 alley will be long, and in great heat of the year, 

 or day, you ought not to buy the shade in the 

 garden by going in the sun through the green ; 

 therefore you are, of either side the green, to 

 plant a covert alley, upon carpenter's work, 

 about twelve foot in height, by which you may 

 go in shade into the garden. As for the making 

 of knots, or figures, with divers colored earths, 

 that they may lie under the windows of the 

 house on that side which the garden stands, 

 they be but toys ; you may see as good sights 

 many times in tarts. The garden is best to be 

 square, encompassed on all the four sides with a 

 stately arched hedge ; the arches to be upon 

 pillars of carpenter's work, of some ten foot 

 high and six foot broad, and the spaces between 

 of the same dimension with the breadth of the 

 arch. Over the arches let there be an entire 

 hedge of some four foot high, framed also upon 

 carpenter's work ; and upon the upper hedge, 

 over every arch, a little turret, with a belly 

 enough to receive a cage of birds ; and over 

 every space between the arches some other little 

 figure, with broad plates of round colored glass 



