22 THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



With ftone. Egregious madnefs ; yet purfu'd 



With pains unwearied, with expence unfumm'd, 400 



And fcience doating. Hence the fidelong walls 



Of ihaven yew ; the holly's prickly arms 



Trimm'd into high arcades ; the tonfile box 



Wove, in mofaic mode of many a curl, 



Around the figur'd carpet of the lawn. 405 



Hence too deformities of harder cure : 



The 



tranfcribe the pafiage, which is the more remarkable as it came from the quaint 

 pen of Sir Henry Wotton : " I muft note (fays he) a certain contrariety be- 

 " tween building and gardening : for as fabricks fhould be regular, fo gar- 

 " dens (hould be irregular, or at leaft caft into a very wild regularity. To 

 *' exemplify my conceit, I have feen a garden, for the manner perchance incom- 

 " parable ; into which the firft accefs was a high walk like a terras, from whence 

 " might be taken a general view of the whole plot below, but rather in a delight- 

 * c ful confufion, than with any plain diftinclion of the pieces. From this the 

 " beholder defcending many fteps, was afterwards conveyed again by feveral 

 " mountings and valings, to various entertainments of his fcent and fight : 

 " which I (hall not need to defcribe, for that were poetical ; let me only note 

 " this, that every one of thefe diverfities, was as if he had been magically tranf- 

 ported into a new garden." Were the Terras and the {reps omitted, this 

 defcription would feem to be almoft entirely conformable to our prefent ideas of 

 ornamental panting. The pafTage which follows is not Icfs worthy of our notice. 

 * But though other countries have more benefit of the Sun than we, and thereby 



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