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beauty ; wherewith we will not trouble ourselves : as, that 

 the bottom be finely paved, and with images ; the sides 

 likewise ; and withal embellished with coloured glass, and 

 such things of lustre ; encompassed also with fine rails of 

 low statua's. But the main point is the same which we 

 mentioned in the former kind of fountain ; which is, that 

 the water be in perpetual motion, fed by a water higher 

 than the pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and 

 then discharged away under ground, by some equality of 

 bores, that it stay little. And for fine devices, of arching 

 water without spilling, and making it rise in several forms 

 (of feathers, drinking glasses, canopies, and the like), they 

 be pretty things to look on, but nothing to health and 

 sweetness. 



For the heath, which was the third part of our plot, I 

 wish it to be framed, as much as may be, to a natural 

 wildness. Trees I would have none in it, but some 

 thickets made only of sweet-briar and honeysuckle, and 

 some wild vine amongst ; and the ground set with violets, 

 strawberries, and primroses. For these are sweet, and 

 prosper in the shade. And these to be in the heath, here 

 and there, not in any order. I like also little heaps, in the 

 nature of mole-hills (such as are in wild heaths), to be set, 

 some with wild thyme; some with pinks; some with ger- 

 mander, that gives a good flower to the eye ; some with 

 periwinkle ; some with violets ; some with strawberries ; 

 some with cowslips ; some with daisies ; some with red 

 roses ; some with lilium convallium ; some with sweet- 

 williams red ; some with bear's-foot : and the like low 

 flowers, being withal sweet and sightly. Part of which 

 heaps are to be with standards of little bushes pricked upon 

 their top, and part without. The standards to be roses ; 

 juniper ; holly ; berberries ; (but here and there, because 

 of the smell of their blossom ;) red currants ; gooseberry ; 

 rosemary; bays; sweet-briar; and such like. But these 

 standards to be kept with cutting, that they grow not out 

 of course. 



For the side grounds, you are to fill them with variety 

 of alleys, private, to give a full shade, some of them, 



