tf 2 T/)/? H I s T o R Y Chap. I. 



Which vpe^ in our appointed Work employ^d^ 

 Have finip^d'^ happy in our mutual Help, 

 And mutual Love, the Crown of all our Blifs^ 

 Ordain d by Thee : And this delicious Place, 

 For us too large, xohere thy Abundance wants 

 Partakers, and uncropt, falls to the Ground. 



And line 771, defer ibing their blefs'd Repofe : 



Thefe,luird by 'Nightingale* s,embracing,flept. 

 And on their naked Limbs the Floxvry Roof 

 Shourd Rofes, which the Morn repair d. 



\^ Sleep on, 

 Blefsd Pair : And Oh, yet happieft, ifyefeek 

 No happier State, and Know to Know no more. 



Thus fweetly did this great Poet paint the 

 Innocence and Beauty of a Country Life, 

 in the happy Poffeflion of Paradife by our 

 Firft Parents. Happy, thrice happy Man, had 

 his Pen been employ 'd on no other Subjedr. 



Kini Upon the happy Reftitution of the Royal 



Charles II. p^j^jjy^ /2f7/wc? 1660. Planting began again 



to raife its dejeded Head ^ and in this Reign 



it was, that thofe preliminary Foundations 



of Gard'ning were laid, that have fince been 



; rais'd to fuch a ftupendous Height. 



'Tis certain that Prince, whofe Thoughts 

 and Expreffions of Things were allowed by 

 all to be Juft, did plant the large Semi-circle 

 before the Palace at Hamptoii-Coicrt, &c. in 

 purfuance of fome great Defign he had form'd 



in 



