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Hail, O hail then, and welcome, you bless'd 

 elyziums, where a new state of things expects us ; 

 where all the pompous and charming delights that 

 detain us here a while, shall be changed into real and 

 substantial fruitions, eternal springs, and pleasure 

 intellectual, becoming the dignity of our nature ! 



I beg no pardon for the application, but deplore 

 my no better use of it, and that whilst I am thus 

 upon the wing, I must now descend so soon again. 



Of all the foresters, this preserves it self best from 

 the bruttings of deer, and therefore to be kindly 

 entertain'd in parks : But the reason why with us, 

 we rarely find them ample and spreading, is, that our 

 husbandman suffers too large and grown a lop, before 

 he cuts them off, which leaves such ghastly wounds, 

 as often proves exitial to the tree, or causes it to grow 

 deform'd and hollow, and of little worth but for the 

 fire ; whereas, were they oftener taken off, when the 

 lops were younger, though they did not furnish so 

 great wood, yet the continuance and flourishing of 

 the tree, would more than recompence it. For this 

 cause, 



3. They very frequently plant a clump of these 

 trees before the entries of most of the great towns in 

 Germany, to which they apply timber-frames for 

 convenience, and the people to sit and solace in. 

 Scamozzi the architect, says, that in his time he found 

 one whose branches extended seventy foot in breadth; 

 this was at Vuimfen near the Necker, belonging to 

 the Duke of Wirtemberg : But that which I find 

 planted before the gates of Strasburgh, is a platanus^ 

 and a lime-tree growing hard by one another, in 

 which is erected a Pergolo eight foot from the ground, 

 of fifty foot wide, having ten arches of twelve foot 



