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stands saluted with hard language, even by their own 

 professors. 



That in this garden discourse, we range into extra- 

 neous things, and many parts of art and nature, we 

 follow herein the example of old and new plantations, 

 wherein noble spirits contented not themselves with 

 trees, but by the attendance of aviaries, fish-ponds, and 

 all variety of animals they made their gardens the 

 epitome of the earth, and some resemblance of the 

 secular shows of old. . . . 



X.rzii.A, May I, 1 65 8 



