86 THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



colores, pratorum frutices?- etc.; to disport in some pleasant plain, 

 needs be a delectable recreation. Hortum principis et domus ad 

 delectationem facta, cum sylva, monte et piscina, vulgb la Montagna : 

 the prince's garden at Ferrara Schottus 2 highly magnifies, with 

 the groves, mountains, ponds, for a delectable prospect, he was 

 much affected with it ; a Persian paradise, or pleasant park, could 

 not be more delectable in his sight. St Bernard, in the descrip- 

 tion of his monastery, is almost ravished with the pleasures of it. 

 A sick man 3 (saith he) sits upon a green bank, and when the dog- 

 star parcheth the Plains, and dries up rivers, he lies in a shady 

 bowre! Fronde sub arborea ferventia temperat astra, and feeds 

 his eyes with variety of objects, herbs, trees, to comfort his misery, 

 he receives many delightsome smells, and fills his ears with that sweet 

 and various harmony of Birds : good God (saith he) what a com- 

 pany of pleasures hast thou made for man! He that should be 

 admitted on a sudden to the sight of such a Palace as that of 

 Escurial in Spain, or to that which the Moors built at Granado, 

 Fountenblewe in France, the Turks gardens in his seraglio, wherein 

 all manner of Birds and beasts are kept for pleasure ; Wolves, 

 Bears, lynces, Tygers, Lyons, Elephants, etc. or upon the banks 

 of that Thracian Bosphorus : the Pope's Belvedere in Rome 4 as 

 pleasing as those Horti pensiles in Babylon, or that Indian King's 

 delightsome garden in sElian-^ or those famous garden? of the 

 Lord Cantelow in France? could not choose, though he were 

 never so ill apaid, but be much recreated for the time ; or 

 many of our Noblemens gardens at home. The Anatomy of 

 Melancholy. 



1 Theophylact. 



2 Itinerar. Ital. 



3 Sedet segrotus cespite viridi, et cum inclementia Canicularis terras excoquit, 

 et siccat flumina, ipse securus sedet sub arborea fronde, et ad doloris sui 

 solatium, naribus suis gramineas redolet species, pascit oculos herbarum 

 amcena viriditas, aures suavi modulamine demulcet pictaram concentus avium, 

 etc. Deus bone, quanta pauperibus procuras solatia ! 



4 Diod. Siculus, lib. 2. 



5 Lib. 13, De Animal, cap. 13. 



6 Pet. Gillius, Paul Hentznerus, Itinerar. Italise, 1617 ; lod. Sincerus, 

 Itinerar. Gallise, 1617 ; Simp. lib. I, quest. 4. 



