8o THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



groves in Thessalie^ raysed with gravell and sand, having seats and 

 banks of Camamile, all this delights the minde, and brings health 

 to the body. 



View now with delight the works of your owne hands, your 

 fruit trees of all sorts, loaden with sweet blossomes, and fruit of 

 all tasts, operations, and coloures ; your trees standing in comely 

 order which way soever you looke. 



Your borders on every side hanging and drooping with Feberries, 

 Raspberries, Barberries, Currens, and the roots of your trees 

 powdred with Strawberries, red, white, and greene, what a pleasure 

 is this ? 



Your Gardiner can frame your lesser wood to the shape of men 

 armed in the field, ready to give battell : or swift running Grey 

 hounds : or of well sented and true running Hounds, to chase the 

 Deere, or hunt the Hare. This kinde of hunting shall not waste 

 your corne, nor much your coyne. 



Mazes well framed a man's height, may perhaps make your 

 friend wander in gathering of berries, till he cannot recover him- 

 selfe without your helpe. 



To have occasion to Exercise within your Orchard : it shall be 

 a pleasure to have a Bowling Alley, or rather (which is more 

 manly, and more healthfull) a payre of Buttes, to stretch your 

 armes. 



Rosemary and sweet Eglantine are seemly ornaments about a 

 Doore or Window, so is Woodbine. 



Looke Chap. 5 and you shall see the forme of a Conduict. It 

 there were two or more it were not amisse. 



And in mine opinion, I could highly commend your Orchard, 

 if eyther thorow it, or hard by it there should runne a pleasant 

 River with silver streames : you might sit in your Mount, and 

 angle a peckled Trout, or a sleightie Eele, or some other Fish. 

 Or Moats, whereon you might row with a Boat, and fish with Nets. 



Store of Bees in a dry and warme Bee-house, comely made of 

 Firboords, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and 

 sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and 

 innocent Bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in 



