12 

 From which place the plague drove him to Cambridge, to 



The college, best of all the rest, 

 With thanks to thee, O Trinity! 

 Through thee and thine, for me and mine, 

 Some stay I got. 



He concludes with pious resignation to God."* 



DIDYMUS MOUNTAIN, who, in 1571, wrote " The Gar- 

 dener's Labyrinth," in 4to. " wherein are set forth, divers 

 knottes and mazes, cunningly handled for the beautifying of 

 gardens.'' And in 1577 appeared a second part, " with the 

 wittie ordering of other daintie hearbes, delectable flowres, 

 pleasaunt fruites, and fine rootes, as the like hath not here- 

 tofore been vttered of any.' J Other editions in 4-to. 1608, 

 and in folio 1652. 



BARNABY GOOCHE published The whole art and trade of 

 Husbandry, contained in foure books, enlarged by Barnaby 

 Googe, Esq. 4to. black letter, 1578. The two later editions, 

 in 1614 and 1631, both in black letter, and in 4to. are said 

 by Weston to have been re-printed by Gervaise Mark- 

 ham. The 2nd book treats " Of Gardens, Orchards, and 

 Woods." 



In the 2nd vol. of the Censura Litt. is some information 

 respecting B. Gooche, and his epistle to the reader shews 

 his own liberal mind: " I haue thought it meet (good Reader) 

 for thy further profit and pleasure, to put into English, 



* To have completed the various contrasting vicissitudes of this poor 

 Suffolk farmer's life, he should have added to his other employments, those 

 of another Suffolk man, the late W. Lomax, who had been grave-digger at 

 the pleasant town of Bury St. Edmund's, for thirty-six years, and who, 

 also, for a longer period than thirty-six years, had been a morrice-dancer at 

 all the elections for that borough. 



