34 T/je History Chap. i. 



of the fir jl Paradife there's nothing found ^ 

 TlantsfetbyHeavn are vanip'd^ and the Ground ^ 

 Tet the Defcription lafis : Who knows the fate 

 Of Lines , that pall this Paradife relate .<? (/) 



And indeed, of all the Gardens heretofore 

 mentioned, we don t find any fuch Remains 5 

 and very little betides the Names, not only of 

 Paradife, but alfo the Hanging-Gardens of 

 Babylon^ or the Gardens of Cyrus, or of the 

 fabulous ones of Adonis^ the Hefperides^ Al- 

 cinous, or even of the fo-much-fam'd Gardens 

 of Theophrafies and Epicurus. 



But for promifcuous Planting, Cyrjis is 

 reported, even in his Youth, to have planted 

 all the Lejfer Afia: Certainly a great Un- 

 dertaking, and worthy fo great a King ^ and 

 had his Ambition ftopt here, had not the 

 Thoughts of Univerial Empire prompted 

 him farther, he might not have fallen a 

 Viaim to Female Rage , and after his great 

 SuccefTes, the Preludes of his difmal Trage- 

 dy, fubmitted his Head to the fatal Stroke 

 of the furious A?nazonian Queen, with this 

 reproachful Speech, Satia te f anguine^ quern 

 fatifii, fuch as will ever be a Blot on his 

 Name, as long as any of the Hiftories of 

 thofe Time (hall be extant. To fuch a fatal 

 Cataftrophe does Ambition very often bring 

 the greatefl of her Votaries. 



(/) Set Willer^^- Mifcelianeous Poems, under the Title of 

 St. J.imet\f Park. 



And 



