20 The HiSTo R Y Chap. i. 



And when they had arriv'd fomething near- 

 er the blifsful Place of his Habitation (/) 

 upon a folicitous Enquiry where it was feated : 



To this the f acred Poet thus reply d. 

 In no fix d Place the happy Souls abide ^ 

 In Groves we live^ and lie on mojfie Beds, 

 ByChryJlal Streams that mur?nur throtheMeads. 



Dryden. 



.In- fine, I cantbut obfervethro* the whole 



Courfe of Poetry, how extenfive they have 



carried their Thoughts, not content with 



the fmall and diminutive Scenes of Flowers, 



Greens, &c. but ftill carrying and prolating 



them to diftant Woods and Meadows. ; 



But to confirm the Value thofe ancient 



Thrafeas. Heathens had for Gard'ning, .&c. {g) Thra- 



feaj, as the fame Editor of Pliny affirms from 



Tacitm, was found labouring hard in hiS' 



Garden, when one of the Qudiftors was fent 



tO'hini about Bufinefsof great Moment. 



Tarquinius ,^, Even the proud (h^'Tarqumic^, one of the 



Superbus. j^'ft' ^f ^^^ R^,^^^ Rings," (at lead of that 



Name) is reported by LzVf to have given Au- 

 dience (if I may give It fo tender a Title) 



(/) Atque huic refponfum paucis ita reddidit heros, 

 Nulli cercadomus : lucis habitamus opacis 

 Riparumque coros ?C prata reccntia rivis, 

 Inolimus. — — Vh'g. /¥.neid. 6. v. 6ji» 



(g) ^^/^. Delccampius'i Notes on Pliny, lib. 14. prjidic, 



(h) Capice Papaverum baculo dicicur decuiTiire,I;v, //3. i. 



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