•^i^S The History Chap. i. 



-lb I fling Flocks^ Tillage, Heroes : Mantua ^ji;^ 

 Me L?/^, Brundufium Deaths Naples a Grave. 



/Twould be a great piece of Injuftice to o- 

 Vitruvius. jnit Vitruvhts^ the celebrated Architeft a- 

 mongft the Romans about this Time, who, 

 in his Treatife on Architefture, has left us 

 excellent Direftions relating to Situations: 

 :Thefe are quoted by nioft Authors that treat 

 of Gard'ning^ at the Beginning of their Books 3 

 for which Reafon I (hall content myfclf, after 

 'I have paid this fhort, but willing, Tribute 

 iSo the Memory of this great Archited: and 

 Gard'ner, and proceed to 

 Horace. Horace, the next of my Lift of Garden- 

 Heroes, tho' there remains nothing of his, 

 diredtly relating to our prefent Subjed, as to 

 Precepts in Gardening and Husbandry ^ yet 

 he was, doubtlefs, a paflionate Admirer, as 

 well as an intelligent Praditioner in thefe Sci- 

 ences, his Life being chiefly fpent in the Plea- 

 fures of the Country. He w^as born at Ve^ 

 nufius^ a City of Apulia, and fpent the great- 

 eft Part of his Time in his Country Grange, 

 fituate between Sabimm and Tiburtinum'^ 

 from which Places the Virtuofo's of that Time 

 reforted to him : And when he was led by his 

 Affairs at any time to the Capitol, his Thoughts 

 were never the lefs drawn from his Rural 

 Delights, taking all the Opportunities of writ- 

 ing to, and hearing from his delightful Villa. 



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