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III 



Christoph Plantin not only built up a sonnet to enshrine his 

 garden amongst the other things which seemed to him 

 necessary to Le Bonheur de ce Monde, but having carefully 

 set it into type he handed it down for all to read; and here 

 we have a few lines of his prayer: 



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"Avoir une maison commode, propre et belle, 

 Un jardin tapiss^ d'espaliers odorans, 

 Des fruits, d'excellent vin, peu de train, peu d'enfans 

 Poss^der seul sans bruit une femme fiddle." 



And being an ecclesiastic did not, it seems, prevent Dean 

 Swift from giving the magic lamp a little rub on his own 

 account, nor indeed from stating quite clearly his modest 

 but well-defined ideas as to what he would wish for his out- 

 fitting in this world's goods and gear. He too, wishes for a 

 garden, although he stipulates that it shall be a river front 

 property and shall carry with it not only a house, but a 

 handsome one, \ \ \ | ^\j i S^ 



" I've often wish'd that I had clear, \ 

 For life, six hundred pounds a year; 

 A handsome house to lodge a friend; 

 A river at my garden's end ; 

 A terrace walk, and half a rood 

 Of land set out to plant a wood." 



We must not find fault with the worthy dean however, for 

 his estimate of an annuity at six hundred pounds a year 

 sounds meagre enough to our modem ears and if he wished 



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