to The History Chap, i. 



But to follow the Words of Sir Thomas 

 Brown, in his Gardens of Cyrus : 



" The Perfian Gallants who deftroy'd the 



" Bahylonifi Monarchy, maititain'd their Bo- 



" tanical Bravery, and unto them we owe 



** the very Name ofParadife, wherewith we 



" meet not in Scripture 'till the very Time 



*' of Solomon J and conceived originally Per- 



" /ian : The Word for that difputed Garden, 



" exprefling in the Hebrew no more than 



". an Inclos'd Field, which, from the fame 



" Root, is content to derive a Garden and a 



*' Buckler. 



Cyrus. " Cjrus the Elder, brought up in Woods 



*' and Mountains, when Time and Power en- 



*^ abled, purfu'd the Dilates of his Edu- 



*' cation, and brought the Treafures of the 



" Field into Rule and Circumfcription ^ fo 



*' nobly beautifying the Hanging- Gardens of 



^''' Babylon^ that he was by fome thought the 



^' Author thereof 



Ahafuerus, " Ahafuerus^ (whom many conceive to 



Artaxerx- ic j^^yg h^tn Artaxerxes Longimanus') in the 



manusT ' *' Country and City of Floxvers^ and in 



** an Open Garden, Entertained his Prince 



•*> and People, whilft his Royal Bride Treated 



^ the Ladies in the Palace. 



" But if (as others think) King Ahafuerus 

 " was Artaxerxes Memnon^ that found a Life 

 *^ and Reign equal to his great Memory, our 

 *' magnify'd Cyrus was his Second Brother, 

 " who gave the Occafion to that memorable 

 ^'^'VVork, and almoft miraculous Retrait of 



*' Xeno- 



