iS THE ENGLISH GARDEN, 



Loft in a wild horizon ; yet the path 



That leads to all thefe charms experts defence : 



Here then fufpend the fportfman's hempen toils, 



And ftretch their memes on the light fupport 320 



Of hazel plants, or draw thy lines of wire 



In fivefold parallel 3 no danger then 



That fheep invade thy foliage. To thy herds,, 



And paftur'd fteeds an opener fence oppofe,. 



Form'd by a triple row of cordage ftrong,. 325 



Tight drawn the flakes between. . The fimple deer 



Is curb'd by mimic fhares ; the flendereft twine * 



(if 



* Linnaeus makes this a chara&eriftical property of the fallow deer; his words 

 are, arcetur filo horizontall. (See Syft. Nat. Art. Dama.) I have fometimes feen. 

 feathers tied to this line for greater fecurity, though perhaps unnecefTarily. They 

 feem however to have been in ufe in Virgil's time from the following paflage 

 in the Georgicks : 



Stant circumfufa pruinis 



Corpora magna bourn : confertoque agmine cervi 

 Torpent mole nova, et fummis vix cornibus extant* 

 Hos non emifiis canibus, non caflibus ullis, . 

 Punicecsve agitant pavtdos formidine pennee : 

 Sed fruftra oppofitum trudentes pe&ore montem 

 Cominus obtruncant ferro. GEORG. lib. 3. v. 368. 



Ruaeus's comment on the fifth line is as follows : linea^ out funiculus erat, 

 cut Plumx impKcabantur variis t'mfttE colortbus, ad feras terrcndas, at in retia 

 agerentur. And a fimile, which Virgil ufes in the twelfth book of the 

 jEneid, v. 749, and another in Lucan, Pharf. lib. 4. v. 437, clearly prove that 

 the teamed Jefuit has rightly explained the paffage* 



