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which deals with the ornaments of the garden. 

 The words seem instinct with the sweetness 

 and simplicity of the old-world garden. Lawson 

 is a writer for whom one forms a personal 

 affection. He is less precise and business-like 

 than Bacon, who wrote of these things as an 

 accomplished man of the world ; Lawson is 

 altogether more sincere and unworldly, his 

 humour is gentler, his style more gracious and 

 musical, and he wrote with a sense of what is 

 beautiful in nature which could only come from 

 long musings among the flowers and many a 

 leisurely hour in the trim alleys of his garden. 

 Of a sense so delicate as this. Bacon was incap- 

 able. " What can your eye desire to see, your 

 eare to heare, your mouth to taste, or your 

 nose to smell that is not to be had in an 

 orchard with abundance and beauty ? What 

 more delightsome than an infinite varietie of 

 sweet smelling flowers ^ decking with sundrye 

 colours the greene mantle of the earth, the 

 universal mother of us all, so by them bespotted, 

 so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, 

 and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer 

 than imitate his workmanship, colouring not 

 only the earth but decking the ayre, and 

 sweetening every breath and spirit. 



'' The rose red, damaske, velvet, and double 

 double province rose, the sweet muske rose 

 double and single, the double and single white 

 rose, the faire and sweet scenting woodbind 



