Chap. I. of GARDENING, ^r. 75 



For a Retirement from the Ndifedf Towns ^ 

 Is that for which fome Kings have Irft their Crowns\ 

 And Conqueror s^whofeLawt eh frefs'dtbe Brovff^ 

 Have changd it for a quiet Myrtk^Bough. 



And then, upon an enumeration of the falfc 

 Glofles of Worldly Pomp, futns up all : 



Thus all the glittering World is but a Cheat ^ 

 Obtruding on our Senfe things Grofs for Great : 

 But he that can enquire and imdifguife^ 

 Will foon perceive the Sting that hidden lies^ 

 And find no Joys merit EJteem^ but thofe 

 Whofe Scene lies only at our own difpofe. 

 Man^ unconcerned without himfelf may he 

 His own, both ProfpeS and Security. [hurfd\ 

 Kings may be Slaves them/elves^ by their own Faffion^ 

 But who commands himfelf^ commands the World. 

 A Country Life ajfifis this Study beji. 

 Where m Difi:ra8ions do the Soul arreft .• 

 There Heav'n and Earth lie open to our View 5 

 There we fearch Nature^ and its Author too 5 

 Pojfefs'd with Freedom, and a Real EJlate, 

 Look down on Vice, and Vanity, and Fate : 

 There (my Rofania) will we, mingling Souls ^ 

 Pity the tolly which the World controuls : 

 And all thofe Grandeurs which the World does prize. 

 We either can enjoy, or will defpije. 



And now I come to that Crifis wherein ^.^ ^.j 

 Gardening advanced to its higheft Meridian, liJm 111/0/ 

 by the Encouragement of Ring William IIL Great-Bri- 

 of glorious Memory, and his Royal Confort^^'^a;^^ 



and 



