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pipes, which spirt upon all who come within their reach. 

 A Journey into England in the year I598. 1 



O OSAMOND'S Labyrinth, whose Ruins, together with her Well, MICHAEL 



" being paved with square Stone in the bottom, and also 



her Tower, from which the Labyrinth did run (are yet remaining) 



was altogether under ground, being Vaults Arched and Walled 



with Brick and Stone, almost inextricably wound one within 



another, by which, if at any time her Lodging were laid about 



by the Queen, she might easily avoid eminent Peril, and if 



need be, by secret issues take the Air abroad, many Furlongs 



round about Woodstock in Oxfordshire, wherein it was situated. 



Thus much for Rosamond's Labyrinth. * England 's Heroical 



Epistles} Annotations to ' The Epistle of Rosamond to King 



Henry //.' 



Apothecary to James I. ; for his " Theatre of Plants " Charles 7. made him JOHN 

 " Botanicus Regius Primarius ; " he spent nearly 40 years in travelling. PARKINSON 



(1567-1640). 

 A LTHOUGH many men must be content with any plat of 



** ground, of what form or quantity soever it be, more or 

 less, for their Garden, because a more large or convenient can- 

 not be had to their habitation : Yet I perswade myself, that 

 Gentlemen of the better sort and quality, will provide such a 

 parcel of ground to be laid out for their Garden, and in such 

 convenient manner, as may be fit and answerable to the degree 

 they hold. . . . The orbicular or round form is held in its own 



1 Horace Walpole, who reprinted the text of this work with the translation 

 at his private press at Strawberry Hill in 1757, remarks in his Advertisement : 

 ' We are apt to think that Sir William Temple, and King William, were in a 

 manner the introducers of gardening into England. By the description of 

 Lord Eurleigh's gardens at Theobalds, and of those at Nonsuch, we find 

 that the magnificent, though false taste, was known here as early as the 

 reigns of Henry VIII., and his daughter. There is scarce an unnatural and 

 sumptuous impropriety at Versailles which we do not find in Hentzner's 

 description of the gardens above mentioned.' 



