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yourselfe in a wildernesse and silent country ; sideways, 

 in the heart of a great citty; and backwards, in the 

 middst of the sea. All this is within one acre of 

 ground. 



To this Palace (of Prince d'Orias) belong three 

 gardens, the first whereof is beautified with a terrace, 

 supported by pillars of marble ; there is a fountaine of 

 eagles, and one of Neptune with other Sea-gods, all of 

 the purest white marble ; they stand in a most ample 

 basine of the same stone. At the side of this garden 

 is such an aviary as Sir Fra. Bacon describes in his 

 Sermones JideBum, or Essays, wherein grow trees of 

 more than two foote diameter, beside cypresse, myrtils, 

 lentiscs, and other rare shrubs, which serve to nestle 

 and pearch all sorts of birds, who have ayre and place 

 enough under their ayrie canopy, supported with huge 

 iron worke, stupendous for its fabrick and the charge. 

 The other two gardens are full of orange-trees, citrons, 

 and pomegranads, fountaines, grotts, and statues ; one 

 of the latter is a Colossal Jupiter, under which is the 

 sepulchre of a beloved dog, for the care of which one 

 of this family receiv'd of the K. of Spaine 500 crownes 

 a yeare during the life of that faithfull animal. The 



