"I shall only instance in one delight more, the most natural and 



best natured of all others, a perpetual companion of the husbandman; 

 and that is, the satisfaction of looking round about him, and seeing noth- 

 ing but the affects and improvements of his own art and dilligence ; to be 

 always gathering of some fruits of it, and at the same time to behold 

 others ripening, and others budding; to see all his fields and gardens 

 covered with the beautious creatures of his own industr}--; and to see, 

 like God, that all his works are good." 



Abraham Cowley, 1618-1667. 



