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covert alleys of the green may deliver you ; but there must be no 

 alleys with hedges at either end of this great inclosure ; not at the 

 hither end, for letting your prospect upon the fair hedge from the 

 preen; nor at the further end, for letting your prospect from the hedge, 

 through the arches, upon the heath. 



For the ordciing of the ground within the great hedge, I leave it 

 to variety or device; advising nevertheless, that whatsoever form you 

 cast it into, first it be not too busy, or full of work ; wherein I, for my 

 part, do not like images cut out in juniper or other garden stuff; they 

 be for children. Little low hedges round, like welts, with some pretty 

 pyramids, I like well; and in some places, fair columns upon frames 

 of carpenter s work. I would also have the alleys spacious and fair. 

 You may have closer alleys upon the side grounds, but none in the 

 main garden. I wish also, in the very middle, a fair mount, with 

 three ascents and alleys, enough for four to walk a-breast; which I 

 would have to be perfect circles, without any bulwarks or emboss 

 ments ; and the whole amount to be thirty foot high ; and some fine 

 banqueting house, with some chimneys neatly cast, and without too 

 much glass. 



For fountains, they are a great beauty and refreshment ; but pooh 

 mar all, and make the garden unwholesome, and full of llies and frogs. 

 Fountains I intend to be of two natures : the one that sprinkleth or 

 spouteth water ; the other a fair receipt of water, of some thirty or 

 forty foot square, but without fish, or slime, or mud. For the first, the 

 ornaments of images gilt, or of marble, which are in use, do well : but 

 the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay eithou 

 in the bowls, 0r in the cistern ; that the water be never by rest dis 

 coloured, green or red, or the like ; or gather any mossiness or putre 

 faction. Besides that, it is to be cleansed every day by the hand. 

 Also some steps up to it, and some fine pavement about it doth well. 

 As for the other kind of fountain, which we may call a bathing pool, 

 it may admit much curiosity and 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 statues. 

 Hut 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 spill 

 ing, and making it rise in several forms, of feathers, drinking glasses, 

 canopies, and the like, they l&amp;gt;c 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 l&amp;gt;c 

 framed as much as may be to a natural wildness. Trees I would have 

 none in it, but some thickets made only of sweet-brier and honey 

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

 strawberries, and primroses. For these are sweet and prosper in the 

 sliaile. And these to be in the heath here and there, not in any order. 



