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certainly yet very much excel Ours, not- 

 withftanding thofe confiderable Advantages 

 we have by Nature beyond what they 

 have. 



But becaufe Perfons differ in their Opi- 

 nions about Defign^ it may be requifite I 

 fliouid lay down thofe Rules that are the 

 Standard of my Judgment and Procedure in 

 this Matter 5 fince whoever endeavours to 

 enforce a Belief of thofe Things he can give 

 no Reafon for, impofes on the World, and 

 inftead of Inftrufting, highly Affronts his 

 Reader. 



The Precepts of the Cultivating part of 

 Gardening, depend on Obfervation and Ex- 

 perience 5 but this ofDeJigniTig, on a noble and 

 correft Judgment and Tafte of Things : And 

 where-ever Rules drawn from One's own 

 Knowledge, or the Writings of indubitable An- 

 tiquity, are wanting, 'tis then one muft have 

 recourfe to parallel Cafes for the Informa- 

 tion, and indeed the Determination of Judg- 

 ment, to Architcdure Civil and Military, 

 to Nature, nay fometimes to Divinity, Mo- 

 rality, Poetry, and the like. 



This is the Method 1 have taken in the 

 piirfuit of Dejign :, and the Thefes I have 

 drawn for mv Directions therein, are fumm'd 

 up in this Ruftick Verfe, 



Utile qui dulci mlfcens, iiigentia Rnra, 

 S'mpkx Munditiis ornat,punclum hie tuht omne. 



And 



