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same which we mentioned in the former kind of 

 fountain ; which is, that the water be in per- 

 petual motion, fed by a water higher than the 

 pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and 

 then discharged away under ground, by some 

 equality of bores, that it stay little ; and for fine 

 devices, of arching water without spilling, and 

 making it rise in several forms (of feathers, 

 drinking-glasses, canopies, and the like), they 

 be pretty things to look on, but nothing to 

 health and sweetness. 



For the heath, which was the third part of our 

 plot, I wish it to be framed as much as may be 

 to a natural wildness. Trees I would have none 

 in it, but some thickets made only of sweet- 

 brier and honeysuckle, and some wild vine 

 amongst ; and the ground set with violets, 

 strawberries, and primroses ; for these are 

 sweet, and prosper in the shade ; and these to 

 be in the heath here and there, not in any order. 

 I like also little heaps, in the nature of mole- 

 hills (such as are wild heaths), to be set, some 

 with wild thyme, some with pinks, some with 

 germander, that gives a good flower to the eye ; 

 some with periwinkle, some with violets, some 

 with strawberries, some with cowslips, some 

 with daisies, some with red roses, some with 

 lilium convallium, some with sweet-williams 

 red, some with bear's-foot, and the like low 



