42 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



I ordered its course to be altered according to a regular plan, 

 which added greatly to the beauty of the place. 



MAYSTER Fitzherbarde is either Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Judge of the Common 

 FITZHER- Pleas and atithor of the ' Grand Abridgment of the Common Law,' or his 

 BARDE brother John Fitzherbert (d. 1538). 



OF bees is lyttell charge but good attendaunce; at the time 

 that they shall cast the swarme, it is convenient that the 

 hyve be set in a garden, or an orchyarde, where as they maye 

 be kepte from the northe wynde, and the mouthe of the hyve 

 towarde the sonne. 



To p lass he or pleche a hedge. 



If the hedge be of x or xii yeres growing sythe it was 

 first set, thanne take a sharpe hatchet, or a handbyll and cutte 

 the settes in a playne place, nyghe unto the erthe, the more 

 halve a-sonder ; and bend it downe towarde the erthe, and wrappe 

 and wynde them together, but alwaye so that the toppe lye hyer 

 than the rote a good quantytie, for elles the sappe wyll not runne 

 in-to the toppe kyndely, but in processe the toppe wyll dye ; and 

 than set a lyttel hedge on the backe-syde, and it shall need noo 

 more mendynge manye yeres after. The Boke of 'Husbandry ', 1534 

 (edited by Skeat, 1882). 



POLYDORE In 1498, Polydore Vergil published ' Adagia ' before Erasmus, who was 

 VERGIL ail( i remained his friend ; 1499, De Rerttm Inventoribus ; 1503, sent to 



( d ' I 555)- England by Pope Alexander VI. to collect Peter-pence and stayed fifty years 



there; Rector of Church Langton, Leicestershire, and Archdeacon of Wells; 



his History of England in Latin finished 1533- 



T HAVE diligentlie noted at London, a cittie in the south partes 

 * of the riolme, that the nighte is scarslie v houres in length in 

 soommer when as the sonne is at his highest reache. . . . The 

 grownde is luxurient and frutefull; besides corne and pulse, of 

 the owne accorde bringing forthe all kinde of matter, saving firre 

 and (as Caesar saithe) beeche trees, with diverse other, as olives 



