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A DISCOURSE 



BOOKL inclinations to the allurements of the senses may take and eat, and still 



mnocent: no forbidden fruit; no serpent to deceive; none to be 



Hail ! O hail then, and welcome you blessed Elysiums, where a new 

 state of things expects us ; where all the pompous and charming delights 

 that detain us here a while, shall be changed into real and substantial 

 fruitions, eternal springs, and pleasure intellectual, becoming the dignity 

 of our nature ! 



I beg no pardon for the application, but deplore my no better use of 

 it ; and that, whilst I am thus upon the wing, I must now descend so 

 soon again. 



Of all the foresters, the Horn-beam preserves itself best from the brut- 

 ting of deer, and therefore to be kindly entertained in parks. But the 

 reason why, with us, we rarely find it ample and spreading, is, that our 

 husbandman suffers too large and grown a lop before he cuts them off, 

 which leaves such ghastly wounds as often prove exitial to the tree, or 

 cause it to grow deformed and hollow, and of little worth but for the 

 fire ; whereas, were they oftener taken off when the lops were younger, 

 though they did not furnish so great wood, yet the continuance and 

 flourishing of the tree would more than recompense it. 



3. They very frequently plant a clump of these trees before the entries 

 of most of the great towns in Germany, to which they apply timber- 

 frames for convenience of the people to sit and solace in. Scamozzi, the 

 architect, says, " That in his time he found one whose branches extended 

 seventy feet in breadth ;" this was at Vuimfen, near the Necker, belong- 

 ing to the Duke of Wirtemberg ; but that which I find planted before the 

 gates of Strasburgh, is a Platanus and a Lime-tree growing hard by one 

 another, in which is erected a Pergula of fifty feet wide, and eight feet 

 from the ground, having ten arches of twelve feet height, all shaded 

 with their foliage ; besides this, there is an over-grown Oak, which has 

 an arbour in it of sixty feet diameter. 



deceived. 



