GHAPTEK IY. 



GIULIETTA. 



1. SUPPOSING that, in early life, one had the power of 

 living to one's fancy, and why should we not, if the 

 said fancy were restrained by the knowledge of the two 

 great laws concerning our nature, that happiness is in- 

 creased, not by the enlargement of the possessions, but 

 of the heart; and days lengthened, not by the crowding 

 of emotions, but the economy of them? if thus taught, 

 we had, I repeat, the ordering of our house and estate in 

 our own hands, I believe no manner of temperance in 

 pleasure would be better rewarded than that of making 

 our gardens gay only with common flowers ; and leaving 

 those which needed care for their transplanted life to be 

 found in their native places when we travelled. So long 

 as I had crocus and daisy in the spring, roses in the sum- 

 mer, and hollyhocks and pinks in the autumn, I used to 

 be myself independent of farther horticulture, and it 

 is only now that I am old, and since pleasant travelling 

 has become impossible to me, that I am thankful to have 

 the white narcissus in my borders, instead of waiting to 

 walk through the fragrance of the meadows of Clarens ; 

 and pleased to see the milk wort blue on my scythe-mown 



