82 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



doth not please the eye, the eare, the smell and taste? And 

 by these sences, as Organes, Pipes, and Windowes, these 

 delights are carryed to refresh the gentle, generous, and noble 

 minde. 



To conclude, what joy may you have, that you living to such 

 an age, shall see the blessings of God on your labours, while you 

 live, and leave behind you to your heires, or successors (for God 

 will make heires) such a worke, that many ages after your death, 

 shall record your love to your Country. And the rather, when you 

 consider, to what a length of time your worke is like to last. ' A 

 New Orchard and Garden. ' 1 6 1 8 . 1 



ROBERT Was Clerk of the Council- Chamber Door and Gentleman Usher ; under the 



LAN EH AM patronage of the Earl of Leicester. He is the author of a letter describing 



(/' I57S)* the ' Entertainment unto the Queerfs Majesty at Killingworth Castle in 



Warwicksheer in this Somers Progress, 1575,' which is used by Sir Walter 



Scott in ' Kenilworth ' and characterised by him as ' A very diverting Tract, 



written by as great a Coxcomb as ever blotted paper.' 



T INTO this, his Honor's (the Earl of Leicester's) exquisite 

 ^ appointment of a beautiful garden, an acre or more in 

 quantity, that lieth on the north there : Whereon hard all along 

 by the Castle wall is reared a pleasant terrace, ten feet high, and 

 twelve feet broad, even under foot, and fresh of fine grass ; as is 

 also the side thereof towards the garden : In which, by sundry 

 equal distances, with obelisks and spheres, and white bears, all of 

 stone upon their curious bases, by goodly shew were set ; To these, 

 two fine arbours redolent by sweet trees and flowers, at each end 

 one, the garden plot under that, with fair alleys, green by grass, 

 even voided from the borders on both sides, and some (for change) 

 with sand, not light, or too soft, or soily by dust, but smooth and 

 firm, pleasant to walk on, as a sea-shore when the water is availed. 

 Then, much gracified by due proportion of four even quarters ; in 



1 This work usually forms part of Gervase Markham's 'A way to get 

 Wealth,' which went through many editions. 



