THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 35 



" Yes, yes," he cry'd, " Why not behold it all ? 635 



" That bough remov'd (hews me the very vault 



" Where my NERINA fleeps, and where, when Heav'n 



" In pity to my plaint the mandate feals, 



" My duft with her's (hall mingle." Now his hinds, 



Call'd to the tafk, their willing axes wield ; 640 



Joyful to fee, as witlefs of the caufe, 



Their much-lov'd Lord his fyivan arts refumc. 



And next, within the centre of the gloom, 



A med of twifting roots and living mofs, 



With rumes thatch'd, with wattled oziers lin'd, 645 



He bids them raife * : it feem'd a Hermit's cell ;, 



F 2 Yet 



* If this building is found to be in its right pofition, ftru&ures of the fame kind 

 will be thought improperly placed when fituated, as they frequently are, on an emi- 

 nence commanding an extenfive profpeft. I have either feen or heard of one of this 

 kind, where the builder feeined to be fo much convinced of its incongruity, that he 

 endeavoured to atone for it by the following ingenious motto: 

 Defpicere unde queas a!ios, paflimquc videre 

 Errare, arque viam palanteis quaerere vitae. Luc. lib. it. v. 9. 



But it may be faid, that ical Hermitages are frequent y found on high mountains. Yet 

 there the difficulty of accefs gives that idea of retirement, not eafily to be conveyed by 

 imitations of them in a garden fcene, without much accompanving ihade and that low- 

 nefs of fituation, which occafions a feclufion from all gay obje&s. 



