HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE. 77 



Every reader of Bacon will recognise what I wish 

 to point out. Here, however, are a few examples : 



11 For the ordering of the Ground within the Great 

 Hedge, I leave it to a Variety of Device. Advising, 

 nevertheless, that whatsoever form you cast it into ; 

 first it be not too busie, or full of work ; wherein I, 

 for my part, do not like Images cut out in Juniper, or 

 other garden stuffs ; they are for Children. Little low 

 Hedges, round like Welts, with some pretty Pyra- 

 mids, I like well ; and in some places Fair Columns 

 upon Frames of Carpenters' work. I would also 

 have the Alleys spacious and fair." 



"As for the making of Knots or Figures, with 

 Divers Coloured earths, that they may lie under the 

 windows of the House, on that side which the Gar- 

 den stands, they be but Toys, you may see as good 

 sights many times in Tarts." 



" For Fountains, they are a Great Beauty and 

 Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden 

 unwholesome and full of flies and frogs " 



" For fine Devices, of arching water without spil- 

 ling, and making it rise in several forms (of Feathers, 

 Drinking Glasses, Canopies, and the like) (see 

 " The Dream of Poliphilus") they be pretty things to 

 look on, but nothing to Health and Sweetness." 



Thus throughout the Essay, with alternate rise 

 and fall, do fancy and judgment deliver themselves of 

 charge and retort, making a kind of logical see-saw. 

 At the onset Fancy kicks the beam ; at the middle, 

 Judgement is in the ascendant, and before the sentence 

 is done the balance rides easy. And this scrupulous- 



