40 the History Chap. i. 



mongft them, ofGard'mng} he might alkire 

 and dazle the Eyes of Europe, and thereby 

 the eafier carry on the Scheme of Univerfal 

 Monarchy he had all along been aiming at, 

 is not my BuGnefs, neither do I pretend to 

 determine. 



But be that as it will, 'tis certain that 

 Gardening was by his means brought to the 

 moft magnificent Height and Splendour ima- 

 ginable ^ and it is hard to judge in which 

 Charader he appear'd the greateft, whether 

 in his publick one of a King or a Statefman, 

 or in the private one of an Artizan or 

 Gardner, - 



For tho' his Royal Father had made fome 

 fmall Beginnings, at his little Houle call'd 

 Trianon, near Verfailles ^ yet all the Build- 

 ings and magnificent Gardens of Ver failles^ 

 Marli, and Fontainhleau are owing to that 

 mighty Monarch 5 Works fo ftupendoufly great 

 (as i^ very apparent by all the Draughts we 

 have from thence, as well as by the Reports 

 of ahnoft every body) as became only the 

 Pocket and Ambition of one of the greateft 

 and moft afpiring Genius's in the World. 



And this Example of their Prince, fet 

 all the great Men of the Kingdom to follow 

 Vuy of him, particularly the Duke of Orleans at 

 Orleans. Sf^ (ji^j^^ 2>cc. fo that France, now, may well 

 be call'd, in this refped, the Garden of the 

 World, and which no Nation is likely to 

 ,equal, but thofe, the Terror of whofe Am^ 

 J]e had often experiepc'^. 



