grandeur and gain are attendants upon 

 beauty ? Bleft donation ! to a fon where 

 the father has Hv'd fo providently, as not 

 to have given occafion to have it cut down 

 to pay his debts ; even otherwife happy 

 donation ! 



Further woods are highly ferviceable 

 to one great pleafure of a country life, as, 

 (now the fields are clear'd of all harbour, 

 by the monopoly of the plough) they are 

 the only nurferies of game ; and they who 

 are not lovers of the perfuit, are generally 

 the greateft of the entertainment. Where- 

 fore that plenty of game may never be 

 wanting ; it is even become neceffary for all 

 country gentlemen, that are lovers either 

 of the fporting part, or eating, to plant 

 more groves near their villa's • and not only 

 fo, but cut off the irregular angles of all 

 large enclofures, within any reafonable dif- 

 tance of their Seats ^ and turn them like- 

 wife, after they are well fenc'd in, into 

 Oak platoons ^ which altho' a military term, 

 has been fome time adopted into the art 

 of rural gardening. Nor can there be 

 any greater natural beauty added to the 

 outer borders of an eflate, than tlje check- 

 ering 



