ia 
* a5 Priarus, 
Phalli, and 
Xthyplhalli, 
The nineteenth Booke of 
four to what meat foever is fodden in the pot withit. It beareth a leafe like the Olive:the Gretks G 
call it Strution: it floureth in Summer: lovely itisto the cie,but no finellat all ithathto content 
the nofe : prickie moreover it is like a thorne, and the ftalke notwithftanding covered witha foft 
downe :feed hath it none; buta big toot, whichthey ufe to cut, fhred,and mince fmall for the’ 
putpofes beforefaid. sibevilin 
Cuar it 
2% The manner of trimming and ordering Gardens : the farting of all thofé things tbat re: & 
grow out of the Earth, into their due places, befides corne and 
, plants bearing fruit. hep ss: 
Tremaineth now totreatof Gardens, andthe carefull diligence thereto belonging:aicom- 
mendable thing in it felfe, and recommended unto us befides by our fore-fathers and aunci- 
ent writers,who had nothing(to {peake of) in more account and admiration in old time, than 
the gardens of the Hefperides, of CAdonis, and Alcinoiis « as alf{o thofe pendant gardens. upon 
tarraces and leads of houfes, whether they were thofe that Semyramis Queene of Babylon, or’ 
Cyrus K. of Affyria, devifed and caufed to bee made. Of which, and of their workmanfhip, my 
intent isto make a difcourfe in fome otherbooke, Now for this prefent(to goe no farther than’ 
Rome) the RomaneKK. verily themfelves made great {tore of gardens, & fet their minds pon 
now 
them : for fo we read that Tarquin {urnamedthe Prowd (the laftking of Rome) wasin his gar-!. 
den when he gave difpatch unto that meflengerthat was fentfrom hisfonne aboutacruell and 
bloudie errand, for to know his fathers.advice and pleafure as touching the citizens of Gabij. In 
all che twelve tables throughout which containe our auncient lawes of Rome, there is no men- 
tion made fo muchas once of a Grange or Ferme-houfe,butevermore a Garden is taken in that 
fignification, and under the name of Hortus [#. a Garden ]is comprifed Heredium,thatistofay, 
an Heritage or Domaine :and hereupon grew by confequence, a certain religious or ridiculous 
fuperftition rather, of fome whome wee fee ceremonioutly to facre and blefle their garden and 
hortyard dores onely, for to preferve them againft the witchcraft and forcerie of {pightfull and 
envious perfons. And therefore they ufeto {et up in gardens, ridiculous and foolifhimages of. 
Satyres, Antiques, and *{uch like, as good keepers and remedies againft envieand witchcraits 
howfoever P/autws affigneth the cuftodie of gardens to the protection of the goddefle Venus, 
Andeven in thefe aur daies,under the name of Gardens and Hortyards,there goe many daintie 
places of pleafure within the very citie: under-the colour alfo and title of them, men are poflef- 
fed of faireclofes and pleafantfields, yea and of proper houfes with a good circuit of ground. 
lying to them, like pretie fermes and graunges in the countrey: all which, they tearme by the 
naine of Gardens, The invention to have gardens within a citie, cameup firft by Epicurus the 
doctor and matter of all voluptuous idlenes, who devifed fuch gardens of pleafancein Athens: 
for before his time, the manner was notin any citie, to dwell (as it were) in the countrey, andfo 
to make citie and countrey all one, butall their gardens were in the villages without, Certes at’ 
Rome, a good Garden and no more, was thought a poore mans chievance; itwent (1 fay) for 
land and living. The Garden was the poore commoners fhambles,it was all the market place he 
had forto provide himfelfe of victuals. O whata blefled, what a fecure, and harmeleffe lifewas 
that,fo long as men could be content to take ip with {uch a pittance,and ftay themfelves fo! but 
better itis I trow, for to fatisfic the appetite of our wanton glurtons and bellygods;to fearch into 
the borome of the deepe fea : for to get (I fay) oyfters of all forts, to feare no tempeft nor fhip- 
wracke : for tomeet with daintic foule, to fend out one way as far as beyond the river Phafis for 
thofe birds, which a man would thinke were {ure enough and fecured from the fouler,by reafon 
of the fearfull rales that go ofthem, and of the daunger of thofe that approchneare unto them 
(and yet why fay I fo, confidering they are the better efteemed & more pretious, the farther they 
be fet and dearerbought:) to have purveyours another wayin Numidia and /Ethiopia, for the 
rare birds there about the fepulchres among thofe fepulchres(I fay) wherein ftead of meeting 
with game,they ftumble otherwhiles upontheir owne graves and never come home againe:and 
M. 
Jaftly,to have others to chace the wild and favage beatts of the forreft, yeaand tomaintainfight 
with chem,in daunger to be deuoured as a ptey, by thofe which foone aftermuftferveas venifon — 
for other men toca. Butco come againe to thefe commodities of the Garden, and the cates 
rt Dy | which 
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