SIR WILLIAM TBMPLB. 



UPON THE GARDENS OF EPICURUS J OR, 

 OF GARDENING IN THE YEAR 1685. 



THK same faculty of reason, which gives 

 mankind the great advantage and preroga- 

 tive over the rest of creation, seems to make 

 the greatest default of human nature, and sub- 

 jects it to more troubles, miseries, or at least 

 disquiets of life, than any of its fellow creatures. 

 It is this furnishes us with such variety of 

 passions, and consequently of wants and 

 desires, that none other feels ; and these fol- 

 lowed by infinite designs and endless pursuits, 

 and improved by that restlessness of thought 

 which is natural to most men, give him a condi- 

 tion of life suitable to that of his birth ; so that, 

 as he alone is born crying, he lives complaining 

 and dies disappointed. 



