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hand. Also some steps up to it and some pavement 

 about it do well. As for the other kind of fountain, 

 which we may call a bathing pool, it may admit much 

 curiosity and beauty (wherewith we will not trouble 

 ourselves) as that the bottom be finely paved and 

 with images, the sides likewise, and withal embel- 

 lished with coloured glass and such things of lustre, ITI 

 encompassed also with fine rails of low statues. But 

 the main point is that the water be in perpetual 

 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. is 



The Heath For the heath, which was the third part of our plot, 

 or Wilder- j ^^ ^ ^ ^ Q f rame d as much as may be to a natural 

 wildness. Trees I would have none in it, but some 

 thickets, made only of sweetbriar and honeysuckle; 

 and some wild vines 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 molehills (such as 

 are in wild heaths), to be set some with wild thyme, 191 

 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 cow- 

 slips, some with daisies, some with red roses, some 

 with lilium convallium, some with sweetwilliams red, 

 some with bear's foot and the like low flowers, being 



