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any Jll Ufage 1 may poffibly receive on this 

 account, being very fure that I have not any- 

 way betray d a Truft that is incumbent on 

 Perfons of all Profeflions 5 and that tho' 

 there is a Frugality propofed in the Making 

 and Planting Gardens, yet the Gardener and 

 and Nurlery-man will .find their Account as 

 much in the Extent, as they did before in the 

 elaborate Exadnefs and Expenfive way of 

 Making Gardens; - ^i^-^* 



And 'tis the happinefs of prefent Authors, 

 to write in an Age wherein Virtue and 

 honeft Induftry are very much.Gountenanc'd 

 and encourag d, and Perfons of too great 

 Sagacity to be any-ways impos'd on, Perfons 

 who fee through the Artifices of Defign- 

 ing People, fo much indeed, that I Ihould 

 have had no occafion to mention this, but 

 that thofe I fuppos'd to be concerned have 

 too much Power, and are too much ufed 

 to things of this kind, to efcape this No- 

 tice ^ and they will, without doubt, fooa 

 apply it to themfelves. 



, However, if after all the Care taken of 

 giving any reafonable Offence, it Ihould be 

 my misfortune to meet with any 111 Ufage, 

 'tis what was long iince the fate of one of 

 the greateft Gardeners, as wall as Poets, I 

 mean Virgil^ in whofe company I fliall (were 

 1 but worthy) be content to fuffer 5 and fhall 

 give the fame Anfwer as that learned and 

 ingenious Author did, when he was told how 

 bafely he had been treated, (as follows:) 



