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as they may be turfed, and have Living Plants and Bushes set in 

 them, that the Birds may have more scope, and natural Nestling, 

 and that no foulness appear in the floor of the Aviary. So I have 

 made a Plat-form of a Princely Garden, partly by Precept, partly 

 by Drawing, not a Model, but some general Lines of it, and in 

 this I have spared for no Cost. 



But it is nothing for Great P.rinces, that for the most part taking 

 advice with Work-men, with no less Cost, set their things together, 

 and sometimes add Statua's and such things, for State and 

 Magnificence, but nothing to the true pleasure of a Garden. 

 Essays : ' Of Gardens.' 



Jurisconsiilt and Traveller: author of ' Itineraritim Germanics, Gallite, PAUL 

 Italia:,' Nuremberg, 1612. HENTZNER 



'TTHE first was THEOBALDS, belonging to Lord Burleigh the " J 



* Treasurer: In the gallery was painted the genealogy of 

 the Kings of England ; from this place one goes into the 

 garden, encompassed with a ditch full of water, large enough 

 for one to have the pleasure of going in a boat, and rowing 

 between the shrubs ; here are great variety of trees and plants ; 

 labyrinths made with a great deal of labour; a jet d'eau, with 

 its bason of white marble ; and columns and pyramids of wood 

 and other materials up and down the garden : After seeing 

 these, we were led by the gardiner into the summer-house, 

 in the lower part of which, built semi-circularly, are the twelve 

 Roman emperors in white marble, and a table of touchstone; 

 the upper part of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which 

 the water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be 

 kept in them, and in summer time they are very convenient 

 for bathing ; in another room for entertainment very near this, 

 and joined to it by a little bridge, was an oval table of red 

 marble. 



WHITEHALL. 



In a garden joining to this palace, there is a Jet d'eau, with 



