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prospect from the hedge through the arches upon the 

 heath. 



For the ordering of the ground within the great Within 

 hedge, I leave it to variety of device, advising never- ^ e Main 

 theless that, whatsoever form you cast it into first, it 

 be not too busy or full of work ; wherein I, for my 

 part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other 

 garden stuff : they be for children. Little low hedges, 

 round like welts, with some pyramids I like well, and 



:4o in some places fair columns upon frames of carpenter's 

 work. I would also have the alleys spacious and fair : 

 you may have closer alleys upon the side grounds, but 

 none in the main garden. I wish also in the very 

 middle a fair mount with three ascents, and with 

 alleys broad enough for four to walk abreast which 

 I would have to be perfect circles without any bul- 

 warks or embossments ; and the whole mount to be 

 thirty foot high; and some fine banqueting-house, 

 with some chimneys neatly cast, and without too 



so much glass. 



For fountains, they are a great beauty and refresh- Ponds and 

 ment; but pools mar all, and make the garden -^^ fountains 

 wholesome and full of flies and frogs. Fountains I Garden. 

 intend to be of two natures the one, that sprinkleth 

 or spouteth water ; the other, a fair receipt of some 

 thirty or forty feet square, but without any fish or 

 slime or mud. For the first the ornaments of images, 

 gilt or of marble, which are in use do well ; but the 

 main matter is, so to convey the water as it never 



GO stay either in the bowls or in the cistern that the 

 water be never by rest discoloured (green or red, or 

 the like) or gather any mossiness or putrefaction; 

 besides, that it is to be cleansed every day by the 



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