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than the outmost, and so serve them for a kind of gentle shadow, 

 like a piece not of Nature, but of Art : which mention (incident 

 to this place) I have willingly made of his Name, for the dear 

 friendship, that was long between us : though I must confess, 

 with much wrong to his other vertues ; which deserve a more 

 solid Memorial, then among these vacant Observations. So 

 much of Gardens. The Elements of Architectiire. 



( Upon the sight of Tulipaes and Mary golds, etc., in his Garden.} JOSEPH 



HALL 



THESE Flowers are true Clients of the Sunne ; how observant Bishop of 

 they are of his motion, and influence. MwricT** 



At even, they shut up, as mourning for his departure, without (1574-1656). 

 whom they neither can nor would flourish in the morning ; they 

 welcome his rising with a cheerfull opennesse, and at noone, are 

 fully display'd in a free acknowledgment of his bounty : Thus doth 

 the good hart unto God ; When thou turnedst away thy face I 

 was troubled, saith the man after God's owne hart ; in thy pre- 

 sence is life ; yea the fullnesse of joy : thus doth the carnall hart 

 to the world ; when that withdrawes his favour, hee is dejected ; 

 and revives with a smile : All is in our choyse ; whatsoever is our 

 Sun will thus carry us ; O God, be thou to mee, such as thou art 

 in thyselfe ; thou shalt bee mercifull in drawing me ; I shall be 

 happy in following thee. Occasional Meditations. 



walk amongst orchards, 1 gardens, bowers, mounts and arbours, ROBERT 

 artificial wildernesses, green thickets, arches, groves, lawns, 

 rivulets, fountains, and such like pleasant places, like that Anti- 

 ochian Daphne, brooks, pools, fishponds, between wood and water, 

 in a fair meadow, by a river side, ubi varies avium cantationes florum 

 park, run up a steep hill sometimes, or sit in a shady seat, must 



1 Ambulationes subdiales, quas hortenses aurse ministrant, sub fornice viridi, 

 pampinis virentibus concameratse. 



