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oppofitc ranks of Trees ftanding like 

 pillars in the Cawttt/a of the Courts of 

 famous buildings, and the P0rtrc<fs of 

 the Temyh fabdiaUa of old } Somewhat 

 imitating the Per/ftyKa or Cloyffer buil 

 dings, aadthe*r*foe of the Ancient$ 3 

 wherein men dtfcourfed, walked and ex- 

 crcifed 5 For thai they derived the rufe 

 of Columnes from Trees, efpecially in 

 their proportional! diminutions 3 is il- 

 luftrated by Pttrwiw from the (hafts 

 of Firre and Pine, And though the in 

 ter- arboration do imirate the ArtoBylrt* 

 or thin order, not ftridly anfwcring the 

 proportion of intercolumniarions 5 yet 

 in many Trees they will not exceed the 

 intermiffion of the Columnes in the 

 Court of the Tabernacle 5 which being 

 an hundred cubits long, and made up by 

 twenty pillars* will afford no lefle then 

 intervals of five cubits, 



Befide, in this kinde of afpeft the fight 

 being not diffufed but circumfcribed 

 between long parallels and the !7n<rxj- 

 dffftb$ and adumbration from the bran 

 ches, it frameth a penthoufe over the 

 and mafceth a quiet vifion s And 

 N there- 



