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 R A P I 
 
 O F 
 
 GARDENS. 
 
 A LATIN 
 
 POEM. 
 
 In Four Boors. 
 
 Englifh’d by Mr. Gardiner. 
 
 The Second Edition, revifed and finilh’d. 
 
 Examine how your Humour is endin' d. 
 
 And which the ruling Paffion of your Mind ■, 
 
 Then feek a Poet who your way does bend , 
 
 And chufe an Author as you chufe a Friend $ 
 
 And by improving what was faid before , 
 
 Invention labours lefs , but Judgment more. 
 
 E. of Rofcommon, EfJ’ay of tranfl. Her. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
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 READER. 
 
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 I would not have the Reader think me 
 wanting in my RefpeB to the Tranflator , 
 tho ? he finds me mentioning his Name 
 without the Addition of Learned , lngenious y 
 or any other Term in the String of Epithets y 
 which , we Bookfellers , with great Gratitude , 
 as we conceive , very liberally be flow on fuch 
 Gentlemen , as pleafe to favour us with any 
 Copy : For it was upon the Condition of my 
 
 A 3 not 
 
The Bookfeller 
 
 not offering at one Word of Commendation of 
 him , or his Performance, that I obtain'd Leave 
 to give a Jhort Account of this ImpreJJion . 
 
 When Mr. Gardiner tranflated Rapin as 
 you fee it in the firfi ImpreJJion , he had (as 
 I have heard him fince fay ) feen only one E~ 
 dition of the Latin, and that one of the worfij 
 but mojl common here in England, printed at 
 U trecht 1671 • which may be difiinguiftid from 
 the beji Editions by the very firfi Verfes. 
 
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 Qui cultus laetis felices Floribus Hortos 
 Efficiat j melior nemori quae forma ferendo : 
 Ducendae quis aquae, quis fru&ibus ufus ha- 
 bendis, 
 
 Et canere, & cantu totum vulgare per orbem 
 Aggredior. 
 
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 When all the correcl Editions begin thus 
 
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 Quae terrae cultura magis florentibus hortis 
 Conveniat, quae par nemori fit forma ferendo • 
 
 Ducendae 
 
to the Reader. 
 
 Ducends quis aquae, quis fruftibus ulus ha- 
 bendis 
 Piaecipio. 
 
 However Mr. Gardiner refolving to take 
 Leave of the Mufes, upon going into holy Or- 
 ders , gave me his Confent for the publifhing of 
 that Tranflation as it was unfiniftid, and writ 
 only for his own Diverfion : But his ill State 
 of Healthy for thefe three lafl Years , obliging 
 him fometimes to relax his Mind from his more 
 ferious Studies , the Pleafures of Gardening and 
 his Rapin naturally claim'd a Preference with 
 him to all other Amufements. He then fet 
 Himfelf to reduce his former Ferfion to the true 
 Editions of Rapin, leaving no Interpolation s 
 in his Review , which are fmgular in the U- 
 trecht Editiony except three FableSy that o 
 the Crown Imperial that of the Adonis-Flowery 
 and that of Sappho turn'd into a IE ater-fall 
 He likewife took Occafion to alter the Vt ? rfifi - 
 cation where ever he found he had been negli - 
 
 A 4 gent 
 
The Bookfeller 
 
 gent before , or had err'd for Want of more 
 Experience at that Time in Gardenings and 
 tranflated thofe Parts , at leaf an hundred 
 Lines s which he had omitted in the firfi Ver- 
 fion. 
 
 Hearing by a Friend what Mr. Gardiner 
 had done , and confidering with my felf what 
 a Reputation the Tranflation had when unfi - 
 ntftid \ what a general Vogue Books of Gar- 
 dening are in at prefent, and the Curiofity 
 that Gentlemen feem to have of looking into 
 them , 1 thought it might not be unacceptable 
 to the W<. nlds nor unprofitable to my felf if 
 I could procure this Review : For I will be bold 
 to fay y that there is nothing in the whole Art 
 of Gardening which is not to be found in Ra- 
 pin, and that adorrid with all the Embelijh - 
 ments and Advantages that the greatefi Ge- 
 nius of his Age could poffibly give to fo plea - 
 fant a SubjeA in a poetical Drefs. 
 
 Raping 
 
to the Reader. 
 
 Raping great Char after is fufjjciently eft a - 
 bltftid in moft Nations in Europe 5 and if the 
 Englifli Re aider he l e/s acquainted withthi s 
 his moft valuable Work, I doubt not but the 
 judicious Mr. Evelyn’* Opinion of it , will give 
 every Body entire Satisjaftion. He finifhes 
 his Sylva, or Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees, with 
 the following Encomium. I conclude (fays 
 he) this Book and whole Difcourfe of that 
 incomparable Poem of Rapmus , as epitomi- 
 zing all we have faid. 1 cannot therefore 
 but wonder that excellent Piece, fo elegant, 
 pleafant, and inftru&ive, (hould be no more 
 enquired after. 
 
 It would be fuperfluous after this one Enco- 
 mium of Mr. Evelyn’* ( confidering his Chara- 
 fter for Veracity , Judgment m P oetry , and 
 Still in Gardening) to add any more in Praife 
 of the Original. And tho 7 1 am enjoin 7 d Si- 
 lence with Refpeft to the l ran fiat ion, yet I 
 have fhewn my own Efleem of it, by the Cate 
 4 1 have 
 
The Bookfeller, &c. 
 
 1 have taken in the priming of this Edition, and 
 the Expence I have been at in adorning it ; 
 which was the high eft Exprejfion of Gratitude 
 that would be accepted by Mr . Gardiner, from 
 his and the Reader's 
 
 Humble Servant, 
 
 Bernard Lintot. 
 
EximioViro Domino JacoboQar- 
 diner, Ecclefice Cathedralis Lin - 
 colnienfis Subdecano, in clarif- 
 fimam fuam Rapini V eriionem, 
 quarn, dum apud Batbonienfes 
 Salutis gratia, commoratus eit, 
 in lucem emifit. 
 
 )ondam dijplicuit, partim placuitque Ra- 
 pinus ; 
 
 Quippe fibi dijpar , nunc admiranda ca- 
 nebat , 
 
 Nunc laudanda minus ; feriens mox vertice Coelum, 
 Mox Terra adrepens, bumilique inglorius ala: 
 
 G)ua modo Jplendebat, jam turbida Sequana jluxit , 
 Carmine florentes, arebant Carmine ? Sjlva, 
 
 At 
 
At tu divifas partes, & difona Membra 
 Cone or dare facts, pergrato S) Foedere jungis 
 Cumprimum tanti Genii, Mentifque capacis 
 Lux facr a adfuerit, per totum infufa To'ema ; 
 Conor ct am exemit labem , tenebrafque fugavit , 
 Fecit & in purum Vatem migrare Rapinum. 
 
 Futilis ofentat quare fua Faff a Vetujlas, 
 
 Aut cur Orphsei memorat tot fiffa Furoris ? 
 Vera tuus Calamus jam nunc miracula prajlat, 
 Converfas pulchre Formas coramque tuemur : 
 Lxtior ad Cantus vel Tellus ip fa re fur git, 
 Omnis & infueto de ritu Gallia vernat. 
 
 Floribus eximiis Campos lucere videre ejl , 
 
 Quo lib et (!) rivo fluitans devolvier Aurum. 
 Scilicet ut Terr£ Vires blandumque Vigor em 
 V 5 r geniale novat , fc Franci Mens tua Scriptis 
 Intiis commixta aternos infaurat Honores. 
 Suaviiis Angliacis numeris Rofa piffa rubefeit. 
 
Majejiate nova tranfvefiaque Robora furgunt ; 
 
 Qua fcribis gravido turgent Fomar'ta Fcetu , 
 
 Jam demum Solemque fuum , fua Numina ndrunt. 
 O! quas innumeras folers tua Mufa miniftrat 
 F)elicias , qua mira aperit Speflacula rerum ; 
 
 Seu per fecretos ducat Jafciva Canales 
 *Vndas, feu duBas exculpto M armor e donet: 
 
 JSeu Jpargat varios plac'tde errabunda Colores , 
 
 Atque Nivem his Foliis aut tilts imprimat Aurum ; 
 Seu Ramos fociet , frondofa Tegmine fingat , 
 
 Seu ambit to fa Jitas Finns educat in Auras! 
 
 Sic quicquid fmulat , quicquid fmulare laborat 
 5P iBor nonfummus , Nympham , aut Hero a tremendum, 
 Indignum languefcit opus , ridendaque Imago eft : 
 
 Sin Tabulam exornet divini Zeuxis Arundo , 
 
 CunBa placent mire , fpirare cunBa videntur. 
 
 F lurimus Interpres ( quo nefcio ) devius err at, 
 
 Aut Vi <:rbis t ant Urn jejunis fidus inharet. 
 
 7® Vates pr aftans, nullo non dignus Hon ore, 
 
 Sedultis 
 
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 Sedulus infequeris, transfers Animamqne Root a, 
 Tranjlatam evehis in majus : nam Tagtna, quam fu 
 Reddis , lucefcit, Veneres mi He recludit. 
 
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 ffiuamvis not us er at longo conjunct us amove' 
 
 Cum tamen occurrit mutatd front e Rapinus, 
 
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 Cumque Jlupens vidi qudm auguflis faff bus ibat , 
 
 Et quali fiplendore recens jam prodiit Anglus, 
 Erubui , & dixi , ( veteris non gnarus amici) 
 fifuifnam eft ? Anne aliquis magnd de fiirpe Maronis 
 En qudm confpicue graditur , quantum injtar in ipfocfl- 
 
 Sed tandem pared Laurus violare Camoend 
 Tam tenui , Gard’nere, tuas , tantiim mihi fas fit, 
 
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 Tu mea pars melior , fir mam opt are falutem. 
 
 Bathonise -i/w Fontes , fvos fit ardentia Vota 
 
 fiftiid moveant ) vires undarum intendite fiummas , 
 
 Gard’neroque rneo celerem preebete Medelam. 
 
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 Virtutis primaya hand ullus arnantior Hofipes 
 
 Vos unquam inyifit , fanari aut dignior alter . , 
 
 Cum tandem excipiat Lincolnia lata reverfwn , 
 
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c Vnius abfcejju qua funera fane fubibol 
 Ergo abiit Gard’nerus ? Nojtris O ! ubi tantum 
 Sicpraerit Studiis Lumen , quandoque Maronis 
 Et'ih.cci mirabor non imitabile Carmen 
 
 Exponebat , quas rerum Caufafque latent es^ 
 
 Quid non commeruit , feu Cceli Oracula facro 
 Panderet Eloquio , feu PleBrum tangeret aureum 
 
 Sic cum Sol oriens radii s propioribus Orbem - ) 
 
 Lat antes Indi, Sedes laudantque beat as : 
 
 At cum difcedat Phoebus, repet atque Cubile 
 Occiduum, triflemque vident accedere NoBem ; 
 Protinus amijfumque Deum , Lucemque remotam 
 Horrendum plorant, & comp lent plantfibus Mt her > 
 
 Illo monfranti ? Mihi qua fublimia fando 
 
 Carminibus pollens ? Quoties illius Imago 
 Occur ret, Vocem quotiefque audire 
 
 Eoum illuftret, Numen venerantur amicum 
 
 Bath 
 
 Ben. Wilding* 
 
THE 
 
 AUTHOR'S 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 I T may feem perhaps an unpardonable 
 Boldnels in me to venture on a Subject 
 for a Poem, which the greateft Poet in 
 the World has left unattempted. That Ihort 
 EfTay which Virgil gives us of it in the fourth 
 GeorgiCj begins with thele Lines. 
 
 Now 
 
The Preface. 
 
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 Now did l not fo near my Labours end , 
 StrikeS ail y and haftning to theHarbour tend 
 My Song to flowery Gardens might extend 
 To teach the vegetable Arts ; to fing 
 The P flan Rofes , and their double Spring. , 
 How Sue dry drinks the running Streams , 
 and how 
 
 Green Beds of Parfley near the Rivers 
 grow y &c. Mr. Dryden. 
 
 Virgil fee . ms here to be infenfibly carry’d 
 on farther than he defign’d y and I think not 
 without Reafon by the Agreeablenefs of the 
 Theme. But whether he were ftopt fhort 
 by the Subjed he was then upon,- the Bees 
 or whether it were that he had a more fub- 
 lime Defign in view wherewith to entertain 
 his Heroe • fo it is, that he breaks off o’the 
 ludden, upon the firft Recolledion, and quits 
 
 a this 
 
The Pr E FAC E. 
 
 this Subject, which at the fame time he re- 
 commends to Pofterity. 
 
 But thefe for want of Room, I mu ft omit. 
 
 And leave for future Poets to recite . 
 
 > 
 
 Mr. Addison. 
 
 I fear I {hall (carce be able to avoid the 
 Imputation of an arrogant Vanity in Un- 
 dertaking this Province, which alone, if we 
 may give any Credit to Pliny, was able to 
 difcourage fo experienc’d an Author: Be- 
 fides by fetting my felf about to copy after 
 fo exquihte an Original, I forefee I {hall 
 raife an Expectation which it will be impof- 
 fible for any Performance of mine to come 
 up to j and I {hall only convince others of 
 my Size, that they are not to hope for Suc- 
 cels. The Excellency of that part which 
 Virgil has performed, the Difficulty of what 
 remains, and the vaft Improvements the mo- 
 
 4 dern 
 
The P RE FACE. 
 
 dern Skill has made upon the Ancients are 
 fuch ; that how near foever I may approach 
 to the Dignity of my Subject, I (hall with- 
 out doubt be cenfur’d as unequal to it. 
 
 And then the Art of Gaining being fo 
 vaftly different from what it was in the moil 
 flourifhing State of the Roman Empire, and 
 there being in it a great deal fo altogether 
 new, as the difpofing of Flow’rs in Borders, 
 or planting of Fruit againft a Wall ; I douot 
 not but my Readers will expert to find me 
 frequently at a Lofs to exprefs in the Lan- 
 guage of the Romans , what was altogether 
 unknown at Rome : But as this is my Mil- 
 fortune, fo 1 flatter my felf it will be look’d 
 on as a tolerable Excufe for fome Failings of 
 this kind. Moreover, fince the Genius of 
 the greatefl: Perfons of this and the lad Age 
 have inclin’d them to planting and cultivating 
 of Gardens, by how much the more diffi- 
 
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The P RE FACE. 
 
 cult my Task was, fo much the more {kali 
 I have demonftrated my Willingnefs to un- 
 dergo Tome Labour for their Diver hon. In- 
 deed the Pleafures of the Garden have been 
 of late Years fo univerfally charming, and 
 the Difpofitions of them fo exquifitely de- 
 fign’d by the expert Artifts of our Times, 
 that I thought there was nothing left to fet 
 them off, but a Recommendation from the 
 Mufes. 
 
 As to the nature of the Verfe, which is 
 wont to be us’d for the delivering of Pre- 
 cepts, I have no occalion to fay much, fmce 
 Virgil in his Georgies has fet us the belt Co- 
 py of this kind to imitate ,* but if I have 
 not always kept ftnctly clofe to the Style of 
 Virgil , perhaps I (hall not be fo much to 
 blame when it is conhdered, that of all the 
 Parts of the Georgies , this of Gard’ning is 
 unqueflionably the mofl nice and delicate: 
 
 and 
 
The Preface. 
 
 and I make no doubt , but IF irgil would 
 frequently have rifen above that equable 
 Style which fo well became that truly 
 ruftick part of Agriculture. And yet even 
 here, as Pliny obferves , He only cull'd 
 the Flowers of Things j for he has omit- 
 ted nothing that was truly beautiful and or- 
 namental. How often does he flourifh t How 
 frequent are his Digreffions? How carefully 
 does he at every turn avoid that Satiety and 
 Uneafinefs which would be infeparably an- 
 nexed to a continu’d Lecture, and a Repe- 
 tition of mere formal Rules ? In fhort, where- 
 ever the Matter would bear it, he never fails 
 to fet it off with all the Ornaments of a well- 
 regulated Fancy. In the Georgies (fays 
 Macrobius Saturn. 1. y) after he has rubb'd 
 thro ’ that difficult Task of laying down in Verfe 
 the neceffary Precepts of Agriculture , he clofes 
 each Book with fomething more agreeable and di- 
 verting. Thus the fir ft Book ends with the 
 
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 various 
 
The Preface. 
 
 various Signs and P rognoflications of Altera- 
 tions in the Weather ■ the fecond ivith a live- 
 ly Reprefentation of the Pleafures of a Countrey 
 Life ; the third concludes with the Defcription 
 of a fatal Murrain among the Cattelj and the 
 laft with the Story of Orpheus and Arifteus. 
 I have therefore endeavoured fo to tread in 
 the Steps of my great Matter, as not to for- 
 get that my fubjed: Matter did in the main 
 require a dida&ic Style ; which neverthelefs 
 allows a modeft Liberty of digrefling fome- 
 times, and ttepping a little out of the beaten 
 Track, to make the Pleafure of the Journey 
 the more latting. 
 
 But if any one imagines my Digreflion s 
 have been too frequent or too long, I have 
 the Practice of the Greek Poets on my fide ,• 
 and their Authority, I hope, may warrant 
 the Imitation. For not to mention others, 
 can there be any thing more elegant than the 
 
The P RE FACE. 
 
 Defcription Ntcander gives us in his fecond 
 Gedrgic of the Gardens near the Banks of 
 Alpheus in the P'tfan Territory,* in which, 
 the Ornaments the fabulous Age affords, are 
 brought in to embellifh the Scene at every 
 turn? All the reft of the Poets are full of 
 thefe incidental Decorations, (as we find in 
 the i jth Book of Athen<eus) fuch are thofe 
 who have celebrated the Flow’rs made ufe of 
 in Garlands, Cratmus and Hegejias: In the 
 like kind are the Odes of Anacreon , and the 
 Fragments of Sappho , the Poem of Pancra- 
 tes, Chceremorts Bacchus , Euhulus and others 
 innumerable. 
 
 But I fhall be told, it may be, that the Gra- 
 vity and Ufefulnefs of the Subject deferv’d 
 a more ferious Air, and that inftead of in- 
 dulging a roving Fancy, I ought to have en- 
 quir’d into the Nature of Plants and Flowers, 
 to have defcrib’d their Properties and re- 
 
 a 4 hears’d 
 
The PrefacA. 
 
 hears’d their Virtues. True: Nor have I 
 been wanting in this relpedt, as I fuppofe; 
 but I remember’d withal that I ought to write 
 rather like a Poet than a Philolopher. A 
 mere formal Ledture would fuit well enough 
 with the latter, but is altogether inconfiftent 
 with the Chara&er of the former. And al- 
 tho’ it be true that a Flower or a Shrub 
 ought not to be fung in a lofty Style and fo- 
 norous Verfe; yet is it alio as true, that in 
 the Subjed before us there will be many Oc- 
 cahons given to the Poet to raife his Style, 
 andfoar above that Mediocrity, which in the 
 main is the true Style of a dida&ic Poem,* 
 led by fervilely creeping, he fink infeniibly 
 beneath his Subjed, and fall into a Frigidity 
 of Expreifion, than which there can be no- 
 thing more naufeous and diigufting. Allow 
 him therefore upon jult Occafions to a/pire, 
 and, as Anacreon has it, to raife up his Soul 
 
 to 
 
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The PrE FACE. 
 
 to fuch a Poetick Height, as to be able to 
 breath out fomething divine. 
 
 Others, it may be, will find fault with me 
 for my frequent mention of the fabulous 
 Deities of the Heathens. Thefe Perfbns are 
 
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 hereby defir’ d to remember that the Genius 
 of Poetry does necejffarily require it, which 
 muff have liberty to roam through the Servi- 
 ces of the Gods, and a fancy* d Terror of their 
 Judgments muft be allow’d fometimes to 
 move and ftir up the Mind, that it may 
 create Admiration ,• that this poetical Liberty 
 has always been conniv’d at; that the true 
 Religion and Morality are not at all concern’d 
 in thofe poetical Fidlions, which are known 
 to be fuch, and are only made ufe of to pre- 
 vent that Languor which elfe would unavoi- 
 dably clog the Poem. 
 
 But 
 
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The Pr E FAC E. 
 
 But tho 5 I have frequently let my Fancy 
 Iooie in the firft Book concerning Flowers, 
 to which the exceeding Pleafantnefs of the 
 Subjed did very frequently and naturally in- 
 vite,* I have been more referv’d in the two 
 following, which treat of Groves and Wa- 
 ter-Works, and have only interlpers’d thofe 
 poetical Embellilhments in fuch places where a 
 very eafie and unforc’d Tranfition will, I 
 doubt not, be allow’d of as a fufficient Ex- 
 cufe. 
 
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 In the Orchard I believe I fhall not anfwer 
 the Expectations of fome, who defire, it 
 may be, an exaCt Catalogue of the feveral 
 forts of Fruit, and their various Taftes. I 
 have only mention’d the more general forts, 
 without troubling my Reader with I know 
 not how many Subdivifions. And here I am 
 fure I can plead Virgil's Authority, who in 
 
 his 
 
The P RE FACE. 
 
 his fecond Georgtc , where he exprefly treats 
 of vinous Liquors, fele&s out of a vaft Mul- 
 titude of them, only three forts of Olives, 
 and as many of Pears : For there is nothing 
 more averfe to the Genius of Poetry, than 
 a categorical Deduction of things from one 
 general Head, through a tedious Series o^ 
 Subdiviflons. There ought to be a Choice 
 made, To dwell upon minute Matters, argues 
 a weak and trifling Genius. Thus Horace's 
 Statuary was a notable Fellow at exprefling the 
 Hair of the Head, and the Nails: In thefe 
 he excell’d, but bungling about the more no- 
 ble Parts, the Statue, when he had finifli’d it, 
 was but a mifliapen and deform’d Piece. 
 
 The meaneft Workman in th’M mylian Square 
 May grave the -Nath, or imitate the Hair, 
 But cannot finifh what he hath begun ; 
 
 Who is there more ridiculous than he ? 
 
 E. of Roscommon. 
 
 After 
 
The P 
 
 REFACE. 
 
 After all, being confcious to my fdf that 
 Liiere are many Palfages that want Corre- 
 d;ion, but which I my felf have not been 
 able to amend, ’twould be vain and im- 
 pertinent to trouble my Reader any longer, 
 or to exped a favourable Acceptance by ex- 
 ercifing his Patience yet farther by a tedious 
 Preface. 
 
 I Iball only add a word or two concerning 
 the End propos’d in a didadic Poem ; which 
 indeed is no other than that of Poetry in 
 geneial, the chief aim of which is to inltrud. 
 The Soul and Spirit of Poetry is too gene- 
 rous to be bulled about Trifles and infignifi- 
 cant Fables. The Defign of it (as I laid) 
 is to teach, and there ought always to be 
 lome uleful Moral : It’s true it does not fhoot 
 point blank, but it hits the Mark as eflre- 
 dually : Its great Artifice confiiEs in pleafing^ 
 
 and 
 
The Preface. 
 
 and when that’s obtain’d, it will not be far 
 from perfuading. Herein it even excels Phi- 
 lo fophy, whofe foie Aim is to inform the 
 Underftanding. How few are there who be- 
 come wifer or better by the dry Precepts of 
 a Stoick, while the Poet’s unobferv’d Art 
 gently wins upon the Affe&ions, and with a 
 pleafing Infinuation inftrudts the Mind ? This 
 we are affur’d from the Obfervation of a Cri- 
 tick, above all Exception, the accurate Ho- 
 race, that Homer has recommended a trueMo- 
 
 rality far more luccelsfully than Grantor or 
 Chryftppus. 
 
 Who hath what's hafe , what decent , juft 
 and good, 
 
 Clearer than Crantor or Chryfippus Jhow'd: 
 
 Creech. Hor. Epift. 2. 
 
 And though I do not in this Poem incul- 
 cate a Syftem of Morality, yet the Obferva- 
 tion will be found true "in all thofe Gales, 
 where Pleafure and Profit may mutually re- 
 
 1 commend- 
 
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 The Preface. 
 
 commend each other. Nor do I believe there 
 is any where to be found a more compleat 
 Treatife of Agriculture, in refped to theA?e 
 and Climate in which Virgil wrote, than 
 what is to be met with in his Georgies ,• for 
 I cannot fubferibe to that Cenfure of Seneca 
 (whom I efteem otherwife as an excellent 
 Critick) in which he tells us that Virgil's 
 Aim was not fo much to wjirucl his Country- 
 man as to pleafe his Reader ; that it was to 
 tickle the Fancy , rather than inform the Judg- 
 ment. He here perverts the chief Defign of 
 Poetry, to the Rules of which, Purely no one 
 will ever appear hereafter to have kept more 
 clofely than that judicious Poet. I think I 
 may therefore fairly appeal from this Criti- 
 cifm to the concurring J udgment of all An- 
 tiquity, which (if we judge aright) will al- 
 ways he held in Veneration by us. How im- 
 probable is it that fo good a Naturalift as 
 Virgil , and one of fo accurate a Judgment, 
 
 {hould 
 
The Preface. 
 
 fhould fo egregioufly impofe upon his Rea- 
 ders, when he folemnly profefles to inftrud: 
 them ? How unbecoming is it for a Man of 
 but ordinary Senfe and Education to trifle 
 when he lhould be ferious, and banter when 
 he pretends to teach! I believe there are not 
 many who will be fo Fool-hardy as to pro- 
 nounce Virgil guilty of fuch Inconfiftency, 
 efpecially in a Work which was his Mafler- 
 piece, and to which he is acknowledg’d to 
 have given the finilhing Stroke. 
 
 Varro reckons up I know not how many 
 who have writ concerning Agriculture, among 
 whom there are but two Poets, Menecrates 
 the Ephefiany and Hefiod, concerning whom 
 Pliny has thefe Words: Above a thoufand 
 Tears ago Hefiod laid down Precepts concern- 
 ing Husbandry. But Hefiod feems here to in- 
 fill Morality, rather than enquire into Na- 
 ture ^ and talks more like a Moral Philofo- 
 
The pREFAC E. 
 
 pher than a Poet. ’Tis true we ought not 
 to derogate from his Merit, and we may al- 
 low him to be next to Virgil y though there 
 be a wide Interval between them. Virgil 
 indeed deferves our Admiration, there is no- 
 thing in him trifling or arrogant ; a native 
 Simplicity and ingenuous Modefty, a vafl: 
 Reach of Thought, and an exad Judgment 
 fhine through all his Works ^ and he is an 
 unexceptionable Inftance of the Juftnefs of 
 that Remark of Horace y 
 
 Sound Judgment is the Ground of ivriting well . 
 
 E. of Roscommon. 
 
 FLORA , 
 
FLORA , In Admiration of the 
 Gardens of Rapin, and the 
 Tranflation of Mr. Gar diner. 
 
 By Mr. John Difiiey. 
 
 W HAT happy influence of the kin deft Star 
 Thus decks the Ground and thus perfumes 
 the Air ? 
 
 \Does Nature in this Baradife prevail ? 
 
 thou Genius of the Climate , Hail! 
 
 But Nature's Charms are in Confuflon flown , 
 
 And want of Order marks 'em for her own; 
 
 While here the Steps of humane Caro I trace, 
 
 So regular , fo juft is every Grace ; 
 
 Oh, what induftrious Hand commands the Blace 
 Virgil! my eldeftjoy, long fine e retir'd 
 To Heav'n , which firft his facred Art infpir d; 
 
 In latter Ages fo improv'd a Mind \ 
 
 Where but in France or England Jhould I find ? 
 
 b To 
 
To whom the Sweets , that thus profufely flow f 
 But to Rapin and his Tranflator owe ? 
 
 No meane r Fires , and no inferior Toil 
 Could gi ve fluch Rules , or fo adorn the Soil. 
 
 The choice ft Flow'rs that e'er a Garden grac'd , , 
 
 In Beds and Order regularly plac'd. 
 
 Breath fragrant out, and all their Row' rs improve 
 To blefs the Dryads of that happy Grove : 
 
 That happy Grove whofe ever -verdant Shade, 
 
 By the fame pious Induflry was made 
 For Swains and Lovers an obfcure Retreat ; 
 
 Whom while protecting from the folar Heat , 
 
 Love' s gentle Fires by fanning they increafe ; 
 
 R lea fires in Hand they give ; defray their future 
 Reace. 
 
 Here Springs abound which manag'd well by Art 1 
 Their liquid Store in various forms impart. 
 
 Canals and Rivulets glide fmoothly by. 
 
 Enrich the Soil, and entertain the Eye', 
 
 Or 
 
Or from high Tree if ices rudely fall , 
 
 And by their dafhing thus alarm the Vt ale ; 
 
 Their Diftance gives us Tleafure mixt with Fear , 
 At once fur frizes and delights the Ear. 
 
 And Fountains too , with lofty Statues gay ; 
 
 Thro ' which (for Nature's felf muft Art obey) j 
 Th' unwilling Streams by Force are bid to flay. - 
 Orchards with eager Affetite we view , 
 
 Orchards and Fruits to fair Pomona due ; 
 
 Her Infl'ence ne'er to better Turfofe Jhed, 
 
 Her Off' ring ne'er to more Advantage f aid. 
 
 Bleft be the Manes of the great Rapin, 
 
 Who artful fir ft deferib'd the haffy Scene ; 
 
 And bleft he is, in whofe tranjlated Lines , 
 
 His f ill furviving Art and Genius ftjmes : 
 
 Joy of the rev' rend Ghoft , who fmiles to fee 
 His Gardens , and his IV it ini f rov'd by thee ; 
 Induftrious Touth ! my Darling ! and my Care l 
 Be fome indulg'd and fertile Sfot thy Share ; 
 
 b 2 
 
 Well 
 
Well fed with Springs , and all that may confpire 
 To exercife thy Art , and anfwer thy Tie fire. 
 
 A thou fund gen'rous Floors enrich the Ground, 
 And ev'ry Flow'r with ev'ry Beauty crown'd: 
 Groves that may fcorn Theffalian TempeV Bride , 
 And Orchards with the nob left Fruit fupply'd ; 
 And lull'd by Muftck of impatient Streams , 
 
 Think of kind Flora, and enjoy thy T)r earns. 
 
 To my Friend the Tranflator of 
 Rapin ' s Poem of Gardens. 
 
 A S Flow'rs tranfplanted from theirNativeSoil ', 
 Arc oft improv'd by the wife Florift's Toil ; 
 JVhile Art with Nature ft rives, and both combine. 
 With mutual Aid to ftni/h his Teftgn ; 
 
 
 Rapin 
 
Rapin thus cultivated by your Hand, 
 
 A Stranger flourijhes in foreign Land ; 
 
 From France t ran fated, and a warmer Sun , 
 
 He dubious Seafons fees, and He av' ns unlike his own: 
 Tet pleas'd with change of Air, he now can jhew 
 In livelier Colours than at Home he knew. 
 
 Grieve not that Flow’rs, a Jhort liv'd Race, your 
 Care 
 
 Submit to Fate, and Winter's Fury fear ; 
 
 Their annual Tride they lofe, nor Art can fave 
 What Spring had promis'd, and what Summer gave. 
 The Groves a Covert half a Tear allow. 
 
 Above with Beauty plea fe, with Shade below ; 
 
 No longer a Retreat when Storms arife. 
 
 By Winds fubdu'd they fall a Sacrifice ; 
 
 And Fountains ceafe to flow 
 
 All things in Nature to an end make hafie. 
 
 And Friendjhip only long as Life can lafl . 
 
But Fa, it by V e>jc , preferv' d a Jiirer W ay 
 To future times the Mu fes will convey. 
 
 The Baps are ever green, and fujfer no decay. 
 
 From C. C.C. Oxen. 
 April 2 6. 1706. 
 
 T. P. 
 
 To his ingenious Friend , Mr. 
 James Gardiner ; On his T ranf- 
 lation of Kapin’s Poem of Gar- 
 dens. 
 
 I. 
 
 1 0 NG have the p leafing Mufies been 
 j Comp ell' d to leave their Hippo crcnc ; 
 The fiacred Springs and Groves defiroy'd ; 
 
 And all , they with pure Innocence enjoy'd. 
 
 The Nymphs thus banifh'd from their ble fit Retreats, 
 In the vile Town have mourn'd their Fates : 
 
 Scarce 
 
( ) 
 
 Scarce have they /poke ‘without a Crime , 
 
 And confc ions blujh'd in ev’ry Rhime. 
 
 Hence the fublimeft Gift we've loft , 
 
 That Earth from Heav'n could ever boaft : 
 
 The Reefs facred Art is gone , 
 
 With Modefty and Virtue flown , 
 
 No more the heav'nly ^Prophet's Name , and his areC 
 one. ) 
 
 Orphean Strains no more we hear % 
 
 No more the lift'ning Floods appear ; 
 
 No more around us in the Fiance 
 We fee the moving Woods advance 
 To Nature's tuneful Numbers that fupply 
 An univerfal Energy- 
 
 Such as of old could win th' inexorable Fates : 
 
 And open all their adamantine Gates : 
 
 Could make the rigid God of Hell comply , 
 
 And tune his jarring Regions into Harmony. 
 
 b 4 
 
 3. Oft 
 
( ) 
 
 3 . 
 
 Oft then we've pray'd but all in vain , 
 AmphionV Art might be ref or' d again : 
 
 Oft pr ay' d we might have one to raife 
 The Theban kF all, and fend the Stones back to their 
 Native ‘Place . 
 
 There with as mighty Power to fix 'em down , 
 As he t' advance 'em to a Town ; 
 
 Till you, dear Sir, kind Heav'n at lafl did fend. 
 Ours and the Mufes darling Friend ; 
 
 The Mufes Friend and ours , for from long Exile now 
 With Joy we welcome their Return in you. 
 Parnaflus now, and Helicon no more 
 
 An empty Names, fine e you their Beings, and their 
 
 Gods refiore. 
 
 4 ' 
 
 In you, kind Sir, we're doubly blefi < 
 
 Of Nature's chief Delights poffeft ; 
 
 Blefi 
 
( ) 
 
 jBleft in the Jweet Variety 
 Of Gardening and ‘Poetry : 
 
 The Charms of both ne'er met fo well in one, 
 
 ^ Free from the Vice andTarniJh of the Town . 
 
 In Eden thus our happy Tarents reign'd 
 
 And Converfe by their Songs with Heav'n main- 
 tain'd 
 
 An Art divine ; fir ft Angels taught it Men , 
 
 And you bring back unto its Native Scenes again. 
 
 5 - 
 
 In France, Rapin did this great Work pur fine. 
 Which we fee finijh'd here by you. 
 
 What e'er the Nature of our Soil denys 
 Tour Garden, that your happy Mufe fupplies. 
 Thofe foreign Scenes dr eft in your eafie Rhime, 
 Lofe all their Strangenefs, and befit our Clime. 
 French Fountain-Bleau, Bavile, St. Cloud, WTours, 
 Look fo like Engliih we believe 'em ours % 
 
 So 
 
( ) 
 
 So well improv'd too , Jbould the Owners come , 
 Abroad they'd envy , and diflike at home. 
 
 Thus in a Garden fbap'd and prun'd, we've oft be- 
 held 
 
 The rough luxuriant Offsprings of the Field ; 
 When with nice Art the riflng \ Plants are form'd 
 And with new Graces fill adorn'd ; 
 
 Tlntil at laf complete they ftand , 
 
 The Fride and Glory of their skilful Mafer's Hand. 
 
 6 . 
 
 See now the Grove your Art repays , 
 
 And Streams that echo to your Lays. 
 
 More fmoothly in your gentler Song , 
 
 Each Silver Current glides along, C 
 
 Tun'd to fweet Murmurs by your charming) 
 Tongue. 
 
 The blooming Green 
 
 That takes new Vigour from your Mufe, more flo- 
 rid's feen\ 
 
 Gay 
 
( ) ' 
 
 Gay Flow'rs in finer 'Drefs appear? 
 
 And with more fragrant Scents perfume the Air% 
 
 All to your Traife difplay their Tride ; 
 
 Whilfl ev'ry Yew /hoots up her ftately Tyr amide. 
 
 7 - 
 
 Pomona loaded with her Tlenty comes , 
 
 Her Fears, her Apples, Teaches, and her T limbs-. 
 She grateful brings 
 Autumnal Offerings ; 
 
 Of what , through you, her fruitful Orchards 
 
 bore. 
 
 And joys to crown you with the golden Store. 
 
 While Bacchus the rejoycing Touth proclaim. 
 And fng their Orgias to your Name: 
 
 They crown the Bowls with fprightly Wine, 
 
 To him , who gave , and him who prun'd the 
 \ Vine. 
 
 May 
 
May thus your Mufe for ever fmg , your Garden *.v 
 ver thrive , 
 
 Tou and We from both receive 
 Thofe fweet Delights, and blooming Honours that 
 they give. 
 
 Gloucefterfhire, 
 March 7. 1706, 
 
 John jackfon. 
 
To my dear Friend Mr, James 
 
 Gardiner, Fellow of Jefus Col- 
 ledge in Cambridge j On his de- 
 laying to print his Tranllation 
 of Rapin’ s Poem of Gardens. 
 
 HT to your Friend' s De fires will you re- 
 
 M e 
 
 The happy Labottrs of your tuneful Mufe? 
 
 TV hat has a Toet at your Age to fear , 
 
 Whofe Verfe from Vice is like your Morals clear ? 
 The Grave may envy but they cannot damn 
 A Touth who lives and writes fo free from blame , 
 Admir'd . , yet jhews fuch true Contempt of Fame. 
 Who , tho' he need not write for Bread or Traife , 
 Nothing refufes which his Friends can pleafe : 
 
Who Cenfure /corns, but follows Re a fit's Rules ; 
 
 Courts more the Wife , tho' few, than thoufand 
 
 % 
 
 Fools 
 
 What tho' forne Coxcomb full of his own Senfe, 
 
 (As Coxcombs ne'er want Bride and Impudence) 
 Should rajhly and unread your Work condemn. 
 
 Think you the W or Id his Judgment would efieem ? 
 Homer norV irgil then had reach'd our times. 
 Condemn'd and burnt for fome ftp po fed Crimes ; 
 Severe/ Judges mujt your Choice commend. 
 
 Where Virgil\r bright Example does defend ; 
 
 And what we give as to the Subject due. 
 
 Is the juft right of the 'Performance too . 
 
 Here all their Arts the tuneful Nine unfold 
 InftruSlive Senfe in fofter Numbers told, ( 
 
 Th' Imprejfion curious and the Metal Gold. j ; 
 
 By your Rdefcription warm'd, my Fancy roves 
 Through painted Gardens and delightful Groves ; 
 
 Imd- 
 
( ) 
 
 Imaginary Streams run murm'ring paft, • 
 
 And ripen'd Fruit I feern to view and tafte i 
 From Contemplation I fuch Joys receive , 
 
 As fcarce Reality can greater give. 
 
 In our Creation when th ' eternal Mind 
 A perfeEl Faradife for Man defign'd ; 
 
 For Man his Fav'rite , in his Image made , 
 
 He chofe the bleft Retreat of Eden's Shade \ 
 
 Man loft that Station by his dire Offence, 
 
 And foon vindictive Juftice drove him thence. 
 Happy the Genius which infpir'd your Fen 
 To reprefent that Faradife again. 
 
 And teach us how to raife the beaut' ous Scene. 
 
 By impious Art at firft were Cities built, 
 Confufton reigns in what began with Guilt : 
 
 From Towns and Tumults let us then remove y 
 And in fame Garden near a verdant Grove, 
 Finijh our Friendfbip and enjoy our Love. 
 
 Secure from all the Storms that ftoake the State, 
 And gna wing Cares that on the great Ones wait. 
 Range 
 
 i 
 
Range uncontroll’d and from ’Dependence free , 
 And tajie the charming Sweets of Liberty. 
 Thus may we long , , fafe, and unenvy'd live , 
 Enjoy what Flora and Pomona give. 
 
 i 
 
 From Sidney Colledge 
 Cambr, May 6. 1705:. 
 
 Tho. Biftiop. 
 
 Ami- 
 
( ) 
 
 rK .. V 
 
 Amiciffirno Juveni Jacobo Gar- 
 diner Collegii Jefu apud Can- 
 tabrigienfes focio, quern hor- 
 tatur ut ornatam fuam verlio- 
 nem librorum Renati Rapini 
 de Hortorum CuJtura publico 
 donet. 
 
 G Ratulor Angli-genis quibus annuit aquus A- 
 
 polio 
 
 lAe vatum feries aurea deficiat. 
 
 Miltonum mcejla & 'Drydenum p atria jlevit, 
 
 Acri Johnfonum judicioque fenem. 
 
 Et multi, quorum numeri qudm nomina currunt 
 Mollius, Infignes occubuere Viri. 
 
 Jam tibi praclaras, Juvenis CariJJime, laudes 
 Ingenii Jpondent ardua ccepta tui. 
 
 Jam tibi Wallert calamos c Doffi<zque Sorores^ 
 
 Et Rater Aonii tradidit ipfe chori » 
 
 c 
 
 Him 
 
( ) 
 
 H'inc tibi me Hit i modulamina dulcia pie Hr z, 
 
 Et 'Decor hinc purl C ar minis y atque Nit or. 
 
 Angliaco teretem dum donas ore Rapinum, 
 
 §udm me a funt doclis peEiora capta modis ? 
 
 Turn verb , ut recitas , hortus fe tendit amoenus , 
 DiftinElus fpatiis , areolifque novis. 
 
 Mox omnis Florum fpecies formofa re ftilgety 
 Sive Euer quondam five Vuella fuit. 
 
 Marmoreis liquidi fontes turn Jitrgere Jignisy 
 Miratur th alamos Naias & ip fa fuos. 
 
 Qarminaquey & tantum pracepta potentia pojfunty 
 Naturam v a lido fubjicis imperio. 
 
 Threiciis v arias in rupibus or dine Sjlvas 
 Orphea fic cantu conftituijfe ferunt. 
 
 Vi irfio, fi qua pot eft y tua nullum nomen Honoris 
 Detrahit autori mater 'usque fit a. 
 
 Keddit res rebus ? cum fas eft , verbaqite verbis ; 
 Non eft lax a nimisy nec nimis arPta tamen. 
 
( ) 
 
 Jpfe Rapinus adeft, mutatd vefte decorus. 
 
 Major & eft opera Jplendidiorque tud. 
 
 Quin age , rumores aude contemnere V inos ; 
 
 Emitte in Lucem Candidas e tenebris. 
 
 Tone metum , SanElis hie funt digna omnia Mufts ; 
 
 Hie animi molles nulla venena bibent. 
 
 Caftum opus infenfos Cenfores provocat ultro % 
 Nee metuit triftem pagina tuta Notarn. 
 
 Ede , movet ft quid veteris te nomen amici ; 
 
 EDa votis noftris , Jin minus hoc , Tatri a. 
 
 Sic tibi in irriguo producere molliter Horto 
 © on'ent tranquillos Fata Benigna dies. 
 
 Sic te Flora fuis cumulet , Tomonaque donis ; 
 Falce abigat fares, falce Triapus aves. 
 
 E. Collegio Regali Ca- 
 Iendis Martiis. 1705. 
 
 C % 
 
 Ad- 
 
( ) 
 
 Ad Dominum Jacobum Gardiner 
 in fuam Rapini ver/ionem. 
 
 I Or t os fiverfu quis perturbdrit inept o, 
 JOffert poma novo ritu dum mitia Florse 
 Pomon zzque rofas ; dum fpinas inter acutas 
 Infer tat Flores , inter viridaria dumos, 
 
 Lans foret exilis , nec opus fat Apolline dignum , 
 Ordine quceque fito fetid difponere mole. ' 
 
 Mentis at ille nimis fidens quicunque Rapino 
 3 d ajfibus aqualem fore fe fperaverit , ant quos 
 Attigit tile fuis Coelos at finger e pennis. 
 
 Qutppe Pvapini hortis fpettabilis enitet ufque 
 Or do, locifque rnicant propriis fermone de cores, 
 "Onica quos Latio, fua pingere Mu fa valebat : 
 Scilicet ilia alios merito vefigia terrent , 
 
 Ajfequitur par Hi qua nulla imitatio grejfu. 
 
 §)uin tu , ad quos omnes longe , frufraq ; fupemus , 
 
 Confcendis 
 
( ) 
 
 Confcendis monte s nullo fuperafque labor e. 
 
 Enl fuccifivis tibi Talma acquiritur hori s. 
 Confetti Jiudio quam nos captamus inani . 
 
 Ad te nimirum devenerat ipfa Rapini 
 Mens , aut in fpeculo tibi prabuit ilia videndam 
 Tot a ; adeo cunttas tibi denudare late bras 
 Fas , atque ambages animi pervadere cunttas. 
 
 Si citus Hie volat, campoque potitus aperto 
 Accelerat curfum , proper ant em paffibus aquas ; 
 Aut loca Ji for fan legat afpera , fedula glebas 
 Mu fa tua exaquat , nec eo cunttatur eundo ; 
 
 Et pede , fi lento graditur , tu fidus adhares , 
 Singula dinumerans horti redolentia dona. 
 
 Jpfe vocas, audit G alius, paretque vocanti , 
 Invift Britonas, & fecum tranfvehit hortos ; 
 At qua Bellaqueum penitus dulcedine mult a 
 Terfudit , Scena hie accejft Gloria major. 
 
 Mir ant ur Sibimet Flores ac ere fere Formas 
 
 c Cfque 
 
( ) 
 
 Tfque novas , longe major cm frontis honor em. 
 
 Inque mis numeris dum fe nemus altius ejfert, 
 Tro mentis Laurus t antis tua temp or a cingit . 
 
 Sic decoravit agror do Bus Maro, Jic decora jit 
 Tuque- hortos, & par debetur nomen utrique. 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 J. Garmfton. 
 
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 GARDENS. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 Of FLOWERS . 
 
 W ’HAT Culture bed the flow’ry Race 
 improves, 
 
 What happy Form commends the ri- 
 ling Groves, 
 
 How wanton Streams to dray with Art are taught. 
 And Trees to yield the Fruit defil’d are brought ; 
 
 B Out 
 
Book I. 
 
 2 0/ Flowers. 
 
 Our humble, but inftru&ive Song reveals ; 
 
 Grant a clear Sky, and fend your gentleft Gales, 
 
 Ye Pow’rs who blefs the Plains, while I explore 
 With bold Attempt, a way untry’d before ; 
 
 Which to the mighty Maro once was Ihewn, 
 
 And, had his Sails not made the Shore too ((bon, 
 The Swains had learnt t’ adorn with happier Toil 
 The fertile Bounty of the Latian Soil. 
 
 A J 
 
 Eager our Wi(h, and juft may be our Pride, 
 
 To trace the Steps of that majeftic Guide ; 
 
 And, as he (oars to Heav’n, oblerve his Height, 
 With diftant Wonder, and unequal Flight. 
 
 And you, Lamoignon , Honour of the Gown, 
 Light of the Laws, and Guardian of the Crown ; 
 If yet retriev’d by your impartial Hand, 
 
 Juftice fecurely flows throughout the Land ; 
 
 If State-Affairs permit, your Cares forego, 
 
 And lhare the Joys, which by your Favour grow. 
 
 And 
 
3 
 
 Book I. Of Flowers. 
 
 And tho’ high Themis , grac’d with your Support, 
 Ordains you Chief of her tumultuous Court ; 
 
 Tho’ Vice and Fraud reftrain’d, confefs the Pow’r 
 Of your Decrees, of your Example more ; 
 
 Smile on our Sports, nor with Difdain refufe 
 The guiltlefs Bribe of an officious Mufe. 
 
 Mean is the Subjed, low the Poet’s Choice, 1 
 
 Yet Fate hereafter may exalt my Voice > 
 
 To found your name, as high as Trumpets rife : ) 
 
 Your native Fields lhall echo to my Lays, 
 
 And Groves, and Fountains, loudly (peak your Praife $ 
 My Flow’rs alpiring, round your Brows lhall twine, 
 
 And in immortal Wreaths lhall all their Beauties join. 
 
 . ' ■, ’ • • 
 
 To chufe a likely Spot be firft your Care, 
 
 Open to Eaftern Suns, and wholfome Air, 
 
 ! Where no high Hill o’erffiades the humble Field, 
 
 Nor neighb’ring Fens injurious Vapours yield ; 
 
 Fair rife the Flow’rs beneath an open Sky, 
 
 Which by thick Fogs oft’ ffiffocated die : 
 
 B % Nor 
 
4 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 Nor yet too haftily prefume to fow, 
 
 Before the Nature of the Soil you know : 
 
 A Soil where Moifture rules your Flow’rs demand, 
 Beftow Upon their Charms the richeft Land : 
 
 Ground rank with Weeds, which you’ll by tilling find, 
 Patient of Culture, and to Flow’rs inclin’d. 
 
 Shun lean white Clay, where painted Lizards lie, 
 
 Or ftony Ground, or Earth with Chalk too dry, 
 
 And left the Turf ev’n of a ruddy Soil, 
 
 With barren Clods Ihould mock the Gard ner’s Toil, 
 Search deep the Mould, nor the green Turf believe, 
 Ofc’ will the Surface of the Soil deceive : 
 
 Rough Gravel may a verdant Coat dilplay. 
 
 And Grafs may live upon a burning Clay : 
 
 But farther ftill to favour th&r defign, 
 
 Artifts with Sieves the courfer Moulds refine ; 
 
 Left Pebbles Ihould the tender Bio Homs wound. 
 
 Or hold th’ imprilon’d Blade in Fetters bound. 
 
 When 
 
Book I. Of Flowers. 
 
 5 
 
 When now a happy Soil and Air is found, 
 
 (A kindly Air creates a kindly Ground) 
 
 Let Gard’ners through the rude negleded Place, 
 
 With heavy Bills lay wide an open Space ; 
 
 Clear all the Wood, nor leave a Tree behind, 
 
 Shades are injurious to the flow’ry kind ; 
 
 The Lab’rers next with Rakes and Forks employ 
 To break the ftubborn Clods and Hills deftroy ; 
 
 Yet tho’ th6 Ground a level Surface fpreads. 
 
 No Edgings fet, nor mark it out in Beds ; 
 
 That Work defer till Earth contrad her Pores, 
 
 Sated with Draughts of large Autumnal Show’rs, 
 
 Till fearching Rains have reach’d her deepeft Mould, 
 And W inter’s F roll has pierc’d her through with Cold, 
 But as the Spring returns your Pains repeat, ~) 
 
 With Rakes and Spades the levell’d Plain com 
 Then edge your Beds with Box in artful Figun 
 
 B 3 
 
 Gardens 
 
6 
 
 Of F LOWE R S. 
 
 Book X 
 
 Gardens of old, nor Arr, nor Rules obey’d, 
 
 But unadorn’d, a wild Negledt betray’d ; 
 
 Rofes confus’dly fpread were often found, 
 
 Biufliing to mix with Weeds, nor was the Ground 
 Diftinguiih’d into Walks, nor Beds with Edgings 
 crown’d. 
 
 Flora firft learn ’d to drefs with nicer Art 
 At Bacchus Orgies, where Ihe bore her Part ; 
 To grace the Feaft came every rural God, 
 
 Slow on his fluggifh Beall Silenrn rode. 
 
 Around the Satyrs danc’d a wanton Croud, 
 
 The jolly God his gen’rous Juice bellow’d. 
 There too was Cybele through Fhrygia known, 
 And Flora with the reft, but lire alone 
 Undrefs’d, and in negleded Beauty jfhone, 
 Waving i’th’Air her artlefs Treftes flew. 
 
 Too well perhaps her native Charms Ihe knew, 
 Or proudly Ihe defpis’d the ranting Crew. 
 
 The 
 
7 
 
 Book I. Of F l OWERS. 
 
 The Youth, who always critical and vain, 
 
 Divert themlelves with Faults, her Drefs arraign ; 
 Till Berecynthia , pitying the Fair, 
 
 Call’d her afide, and drefs’d with Flow’rs her Hair, 
 Around her Head fhe wreath’d a boxen Bough, 
 
 For Box in ev’ry Field did common grow : 
 
 Thus, deck’d with Ornaments before unknown, 
 
 Her nat’ral Charms with brighter Luftre Ihone ; 
 Improvements, which lb well the Goddels crown’d. 
 Gave Hints to cultivate the flow’ry Ground, 
 
 By Arts to Greece and Latium wholly new, 
 
 Where Flow’rs diforderly at random grew, > 
 
 Nor well rang’d Beds, nor graceful Edgings knew, j 
 
 In modern Skill fair France the Praife obtains 
 Of curious Plains, Parterrs, and flow’ry Scenes, 
 Whether the gentle Influence of the Sky, 
 
 And fertile Soil this beauteous Pomp fiipply. 
 
 Or Force of Genius, and unweary’d Cares, 
 
 Or fage Experience drawn through length of Years. 
 
 B 4 ' Villas 
 
8 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 Villas and Gardens you will bell command. 
 
 If timely you engage a Mailer’s Hand, 
 
 Whole artful Pencil lliall on Parchment tyace 
 The whole Defig:i, and figure out the Place ; 
 Review the Plan your lelf, you may defcry 
 Errors elcaping the Defigner’s Eye ; 
 
 With Eafe reliev’d, while yet to each new Thought 
 The flighted Touch reforms th’ obedient Draught. 
 
 Some Men will Box- in endlcfs Circles twine, 
 
 And darken’d Labyrinths with Art combine. 
 
 Which, like fam’d Crete’s inextricable Maze, 
 Perplex the PalTage with a thoufand w r ays. 
 
 Others the \ Phrygian Labour imitate. 
 
 And aptly to their figur’d Box trail flate4 
 What the Si (Ionian Maids in Tap ’dry weave, 
 
 The Borders round tor painted BlolToms leave : 
 
 But mod of more Simplicity approve, 
 
 And fewer Beds, and plainer Borders love, 
 
 , . \ 
 
 Where 
 
9 
 
 Book I. Of Flowers. 
 
 Where Flow’rs to great Advantage ready ftand. 
 
 To court the Virgins Eye, or gentle Hand; 
 
 Yet to give various Forms, is but t’ invite 
 A doubtful Choice, and an unfix’d Delight; 
 
 That Model I prefer to all the reft. 
 
 Which fuits the Compals of your Ground the beft. 
 
 Thus, after all things are defign’d, the Plain 
 Once more with Rakes mull: be fmooth’d o’er again. 
 The leaft unequal Rifiug will deface 
 Your Garden’s Figure, and expected Grace. 
 
 When firft the Spring has Winter’s Froft unbound. 
 The Swains with Box Ihould plant your level Ground 
 Nor let their vain Delays retard your Speed, 
 
 But Th&bus court, and as he finiles, proceed. 
 
 If yourlmall Spot but little room afford, 
 
 Support the Beds with Tile or homely Board, 
 
 
10 
 
 Book I; 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Left fpreading Box the Beds anticipate, 
 
 And rob the tender Beauties of their Seat, 
 
 Or burn the Soil with its Excefs of Heat. 
 
 But where the Garden will allow it Space, 
 
 Deftroy not for one Crime the Boxen Race ; 
 
 For if the Bounds admit, this lively Green 
 Will beft diftinguifh, and adorn the Scene. 
 
 Now fince that Flow’rs are of a various Breed, 
 And as in Nature, differ too in Seed, 
 
 ’Twill lummon all the Florift’s Art to lhew 
 What Culture is to each diftintftly due ; 
 
 What Blofloms ev’ry Month reward your Care, 
 What Beauties ev’ry Soil delights to wear ; 
 
 Whole Kinds are numberlels, and Seeds unknown, 
 Nor can all Properties of Roots be (hewn. 
 
 From Winter’s Rage, fome fink into their Beds, 
 Impatient till the Spring calls forth their Heads ; 
 
 Others 
 
II 
 
 Book I. Of Flowers. 
 
 Others regard not Winter, but are bold. 
 
 Grow up, and flourifli in defpight of Cold ; 
 
 Some court the Sun, ibme Shade and Covert chule. 
 Nor will one Soil like Strength to all diffufe; 
 
 ome love moiftClay, and fome a thirftySand ; 
 
 The barren and uncultivated Land 
 Suits with fome few, with others dilagrees, 
 
 Then Gard’ners ought to know what bed will pleale^ 
 
 ' j ' ; . ! 
 
 This frequent Charge I give, whene’er you fow 
 The flow’ry Kind be ftudious firft to know 
 The monthly Tables, and with heedful Eye 
 Survey the lofty Volumes of the Sky ; 
 
 Oblerve the Tokens of foreboding Stars, 
 
 What Store of Wind and Rain the Moon prepares ; 
 What Weather Eurus or moift Aufter blows, 
 
 What both in Eaft and Weft the Sun forefliows ; 
 What Aid from He lice the Trees obtain. 
 
 What from Bootes with his tardy W T ain ; 
 
 Whether 
 
II 
 
 Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Whether the watry 'Pleiades with Show’rs 
 Kindly refrefii alone, or drown the Flow’rs ; 
 
 For Stars negleded fatal oft’ we find, "v 
 
 The Gods to their Dominion have aflign’d > 
 
 # I 
 
 The Produds of our Earth, and Labours of Mankind. ) 
 
 But you’ll be cheated by the various Face 
 Of Heav’n, unlels the Winds your Art can trace ; 
 Unskilful in the Changes they luftain, 
 
 Your Neighbour’s Garden you’ll admire in vain. 
 
 Tho’ fofc in Spring the Weflern Breezes play, 
 
 Truft not too far, they will your Hopes betray ; 
 
 And tho’ the Ram in golden Fleece may Ihine, 
 
 Of Spring and Zephyrs, the ne’er-failing Sign : 
 
 Ev’n then may fome malignant Planet reign, 
 Portending Ruine to the beauteous Train ; 
 
 South Winds do ne’er with more immod’rate Show’rs 
 Ravage the Fields, and drown the rifing Flow’rs, 
 Some lare Remains of Cold your Hopes may blaft. 
 View well the Skies, wait till thofe Colds are part. 
 
 Depart- 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers. 13 
 
 Departing Winter leaves his Marks behind, 
 
 All which with careful Obfervation mind, 
 
 Obferve the Skies before you trull your Seeds 
 To the rich Soil, how Star to Star fucceeds ; 
 
 For difPrent Seeds at different times are fown; 
 
 Thefe proper Seed-times Ihould be nicely known. 
 
 When the green Knots have fill’d th’ allotted Space, 
 Left Ipringing Weeds their Beauties Ihould deface. 
 And propagate a wild inglorious kind. 
 
 Between the Beds the Walks with Gravel bind; 
 
 Yet will this labour unfuccefsful prove, 
 
 Unlels you frequently the Gravel move ; 
 
 Mallows and Thijlles elfe promifcuous rife. 
 
 And ftubborn Grafs the Pow’r of Art defies ; 
 
 Such fmall Negleds your faireft Hopes retard. 
 
 And the leaft Care fecures a large Reward. 
 
 Scarce the new Sun has Winter’s Snow lupprefs d. 
 When, from the Prifon of the Glebe releas’d, 
 
 The 
 
Book I. 
 
 14 Of Flowers. 
 
 The Flow’rs fprout num’rous from the fragrant Earth, 
 With Wonder you’ll furvey the teeming Birth. 
 
 Early th zFrimrofe (firft of Flow’rs) appears, 
 
 And fweetly from her broad green Mantle rears 
 Her Bloom of pureft White ; yet oft’ her Face, 
 Adorn’d with Blulhes, takes a various Grace. 
 
 Cyclamens , which we now with Pleafure view, 
 From Grecian Gardens their Extraction drew, 
 
 White Robes and red by different kinds are worn. 
 Both which the Spring with early Pride adorn, 
 
 Corfu and Coritus with both abound. 
 
 And each is frequently in Zacyntb found, 
 
 Thoufands in Summer Ihine with either dye, 
 
 But in autumnal Months they chiefly multiply. 
 
 With the firfl: Spring, the loft Fumaria fhews 
 On (tern Bavaria's Rocks, her fev’ral Hues ; 
 
 But 
 
Book I. 0/ Flowers. ' iy 
 
 But by Report is ftruck with certain Fate, 
 
 When dreadful Thunders echo from their Height ; 
 
 r 
 
 And with the Light’nings lulph’rous Fumes oppreft. 
 Her drooping Beauties languilh on her Breaft. 
 
 Fair Iris now an endlefs Pomp fapplies. 
 
 Iris , which from the Bow that paints the Skies, 
 Draws her proud Name, and boafts as many Dyes 
 For file her Colour varies, and her Kind, 
 
 As ev’ry Sealbn to her Growth’s inclin’d. 
 
 Then Chelidonium opens next, whole Name 
 From the wing’d Harbinger of Summer came ; 
 
 The forward Flow’r a bright Appearance makes. 
 When Zephyrs fan the Air, and Swallows skim the 
 Lakes. 
 
 And now in Gold the gay Narcijfus glows, 
 
 Too fair the Youth from whom the Flow’r arole; 
 
 To 
 
1 6 Of Flowers. Book I. 
 
 To his dear felf his Beauty fatal prov’d, 
 
 Which having view’d, unhappily he lov’d, 
 
 And while the filver Streams indulg’d his Pride* 
 Turn’d to a Flow’r, and languifh’d by their fide. 
 
 Next from the Vi let choice Perfumes exhale ; 
 She, now dilguis’d in a blue dusky Vale, 
 
 Springs through the humble Grafs an humble Flow’r, 
 Her Stature little, and her Raiment poor. 
 
 If Truth in ancient Poems is convey’d, 
 
 This modeft Flow’r was once a charming Maid, 
 
 Her Name I ant his , of 'Dianas Train, 
 
 The brighteft Nymph that ever grac’d a Plain ; 
 Whom (while Theraan Herds the Virgin fed) 
 
 Apollo faw, and courted to his Bed, 
 
 Bur, lov’d in vain, the frighted Virgin fled : 
 
 To Woods her felf, and her Complaints fhe bore, 
 And fought Protection from Diana's Pow’r. 
 
 Who thus advis’d : “ From Mountains, Sifter, fly, 
 u Thee bus loves Mountains, and an open Sky. 
 
 To 
 
Book L 
 
 tf 
 
 Of Flo \v e r s. 
 
 To Yales and ihady Springs Ihe balhful ran, 
 InThickets hid her Charms but all in vain: 
 
 For he her Virtue and her Flight admir’d. 
 
 The more Die blulh’d the more the God was fir’d. 
 
 And now his Love and Wit new Frauds prepare* 
 
 The Goddefs cry’d, “ Since Beauty’s fuch a Snare, 
 
 « Ah rather perifli that deftrudive Grace. 
 
 Then ftain’d with dusky blue the Virgin’s Face: 
 Difcolour’d thus an humbler State file prov’d, 
 
 Lefs fair, but by the GoddelS more belov’dj 
 Chang’d to a Vilet with this Praife file meets, 
 Perfifling chafte, to keep her former fweets. 
 
 The lowed Places with this Flow’r abound, 
 
 The valuable Gift of untill d Ground i 
 
 Nor yet difgrac’d, tho’ amongft Bri’rs brought forth. 
 
 So rich her Odour is, fo true her worth. 
 
 If Spring proves mild, ’ti$ Hydcinthtis time, 
 
 A Flow’r which alfo rofe from Thcebus Crime ; 
 
 c ttfaa* 
 
Book I. 
 
 18 Of F LOWE R S. 
 
 Th’ unhappy Quoit which raili Apollo threw, 
 Obliquely flying fmote his tender Brow, 
 
 And pale alike he fell, and Bhcebus flood, 
 
 One pale with Guilt, and one with Lofs of Blood, 
 Whence a new Flow’r with fudden Birth appears. 
 And ftill the Mark of T hoe bus' Sorrow wears; 
 Spring it adorns and Summers Scenes fupplies, 
 
 With Blooms, of various Forms, and various Dyes. 
 
 And next on (lender Stems the Cholchic Race, 
 The rural Scenes with divers Colours grace. 
 
 But when the warmer Earth to (oft’ning Rains, 
 Opens her Boforn, and invites your Pains ; 
 
 The Beds prepar’d now ev’ry Seed fhould hide, 
 
 Of Flow’rs defign’d to be the Summer’s Pride ; 
 
 As filver Camomel , and golden Flax , 
 Sweet-lcented Mellilot , and Hollihocks y 
 Bottles , rich Mary golds, the Larkheel Train, 
 
 And Lychnis famous for her fcarlet Stain. 
 
 Now 
 
Book I. Of Flowers. 19 
 
 Now watch the beauteous Race, their Growth attend, 
 And with kind Arts their native Povv’rs befriend; 
 Whether the thirfty Soil with forae cool Stream 
 You drench, or working break its ftubborn Frame, 
 Yet who in endlefs Numbers can relate, 
 
 What flow’ry Kinds from Spring commence their Date, 
 When all the Hopes of future Seafons ihine. 
 
 Enclos’d in tender Buds to propagate their Line, 
 
 ' v, , 1 ■ .. 5 ^ 
 
 Then her gay gilded Front th’ Imperial Crown 
 Ereds aloft, and with a fcornful Frown 
 O’erlooks the fubjed Plants, while humbly they 
 Wait round, and Homage to her Highnefs pay » 
 
 High on the Summit of her Stem, arife 
 Leaves in a verdant Tuft of larged Size; 
 
 Below this Tuft the gilded Bloflbms bent, 
 
 Like golden Cups revers’d, are downwards fent; 
 
 But in one view coileded they compofe 
 A Crownlike Form, from whence her Name arofe. 
 
 C * 
 
 No 
 
20 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Book t. 
 
 No Flow’r afpires in Pomp and State more high, y 
 Nor, could her Odour with her Beauty vye, k 
 
 Would lay a jufter Claim to Majefty. 3 
 
 A Queen /be was whom ill Report bely'd. ‘ 
 
 And a ra/b Husband's Jealoufy de/iroy'd ; 
 
 Tdriv'n from his Bed and Court , the Fields Jhe rang'd . , 
 'Till /pent with Grief was to a Blo/fom chang'd: 
 
 Tet only chang'd as to her human Frame , 
 
 She kept tti Imperial Beauty and the Name ; 
 
 But the Report defray'd her former Sweets : -v 
 
 Scandal tho ' falfe the Fair thus rudely treats , p 
 
 And always t he mof Fair with mof Injujtice meets. ^ 
 
 Let Tulips truft not the warm vernal Rain, 
 
 But dread the F rolls and dill their Blooms reftrain ; 
 
 So when bright T hoe bus fmiles with kindly Care, 
 
 The Moon not fully’d by a low’ring Air, 
 
 Early the beauteous Race you’ll wondrin° r fee. 
 Rang’d on the Beds, a num’rous Progeny : 
 
 The 
 
Book I. 
 
 ii 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 The Tulip will her painted Charms difplay 
 Through the mild Air, and make the Garden gay ; 
 The Tulip , which with gaudy Colours ftain’d, 
 
 The Name of Beauty to her Race has gain’d ; 
 
 For whether lhe in Scarlet does delight, 
 
 Checquer’d and Itreak’d with Lines of glitt’ring white, 
 Or fprinkled o’er with Purple, charms our Sight; 
 Or Widow like beneath a fable Veil, 
 
 Her pureft Lawn does artfully conceal, 
 
 Or emulates the vary’d Agate’s Veins, 
 
 From ev’ry Flow’r hie Beauties Prize obtains. 
 Dalmatia claims the Nymph, whom heretofore 
 A bright Timavian Dame to Troteus bore ; 
 
 To her the changing Sire his Gift conveys, 
 
 In every Drefs and every Form to pleafe ; 
 
 Difguis’d Vertumnus wand’ring round the World, 
 On the 'Dalmatian Coaft by Fate was hurl’d ; 
 Where by her Mother’s Stream the Virgin play’d, 
 The courting God with all his Arts allay’d 
 (But unfuccefsful Hill) the haughty Maid. 
 
 C 3 
 
 Yet 
 
Book I. 
 
 22 
 
 Of Flo w ers. 
 
 Yet as the changing Colours pleas’d her Eyes, 
 
 He put on ev’ry Form that might liirprize, 
 
 Dred in all Natures fvveet Varieties : 
 
 To hiit his Mind to her wild Humour flrove, 
 
 No Cotnplailance forgot, no Policy of Love; 
 
 But when he faw his Pray’rs and Arts had fail’d, 
 Bold with Defire his Paflion he reveal’d ; 
 
 Confefs’d the Secret God, and Force apply’d : 
 
 To Heav’nfor Aid the moded Virgin cry’d; 
 s ‘ Ye rural Pow’rs prelerve a Nymph from Shame: 
 And worthy of her wifh a Flow’r became. 
 
 Her golden Caul that Ihone with fparkling Hair, 
 The Lace and Ribbons which adorn’d the Fair, 
 
 To Leaves are chang’d, her Bread a Stem is made. 
 Slender and long with frequent Greens array’d ; 
 
 Six gaudy Leaves a painted Cup compofc, 
 
 On which kind Nature every Dye bellows ; 
 
 For tho’ the Nymph’s transform’d, the Love Ihe bor^ 
 To Colours, dill delights her as before: 
 
 But 
 
Book I. 
 
 2 3 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 But ftrange to tell, the Tulips which you raiie 
 On barren Ground, will bell deferve your Praife; 
 From Poverty their greatefl W ealth they gain, 
 
 And their wav’d Veils with various Colours ilain ; 
 Would you improve the Luflre of their Shew, 
 
 The leaneft Soils the richeil Paints bellow ; 
 
 But in a Soil with too much Fatnefs fed. 
 
 They foon grow dull, and take a vulgar red. 
 
 If when your Garden boails her fined Bloom c , 
 The rainy South iliould deluge her Perfumes, 
 
 Or freezing northern Winds congeal the Air, 
 
 To Heav’ns high Pow’rs her choiceft Produ&s bear, 
 And let the Gard’ners to their Altars bring. 
 
 What moil the Gods afFed, a flow’ry OiF’ring. 
 
 So Glycera once when Jove was gath’ring Rain, 
 With Flowers engag’d the Thund’rer to refrain ; 
 Potent in Pray’r, and like a, Prieftefs drefs’d. 
 
 The facred Shrines with od’rous Wreaths ihe prels d. 
 
 C 4 
 
 As 
 
24 Qf Flowers. Book I, 
 
 As yet the Countrey Clowns with homely Grace, 
 Pious and plain did on their Altars place 
 Such unbought Gifts, as from the Ground arof?, 
 
 Nor mingled vain Ambition with their Vows. 
 
 In April once I faw the Scuthwinds bear 
 Such Floods as chang’d the Sealbn of the Year; 
 Unkindly Rain opprefs’d the vernal Pride, 
 
 And ail our fpringing Hopes at once deftroy’d. 
 
 In like Diflrefs of old the Swains invok’d 
 Kind 'Pales, and with Hay her Altars fmok’d ; 
 
 Thus did the jovial Shepherds Chaff prevail, 
 
 And fav’d by Februan Rites their Flocks from mu*-- 
 
 d’ring Hail- 
 
 \ 
 
 When the bright Ram bedeck’d with Stars and Gold, 
 Displays his Fleece, the Pbaify will unfold. 
 
 To Nymphs a Chaplet, and to Beds a Grace, 
 s h no once her felf had bom a Virsin’s Face. 
 
 The 
 
2J 
 
 Book I. Of Flowers.'- .. 
 
 The Garden C Z laijy bears away the Prize 
 From thofe in Woods ? tho’ of a taller Size, 
 
 Her threadlike Leaves can boafl fuch num’rous Dyes. 
 
 Now Portugal her yellow Flow'r de luce. 
 
 The fnowy white the Thufcan Fields produce ; 
 
 Thefe for their Colour, thofe for Shape we chufe. 
 
 And from her bulhy Head the fweet Jonquil 
 With fragrant Breath does Spanijb Mountains fill; 
 
 But Spearmint muft in watry Vales be fought, 
 
 Which oft with Myrtles mixt in Crowns are wrought. 
 In Tanfies Bloom three dirfrent Colours meet. 
 
 To rival Vi' lets e’en without their Sweet. 
 
 Th’ unhappy fair Adonis likewife flow’rs, 
 
 Whom (once a Youth) the Cyprian Queen deplores ; 
 He tho ’ transform'd has Beauty fill to move 
 Her Admiration, and fecure her Love ; 
 
 Since the fame crimfon Blujh the Flow r adorns , 
 Which grac’d the Touth , whofe Lofs the Goddefi 
 mourns. Ranun- 
 
Book I. 
 
 2 6 Of Flowers. 
 
 Ranunculus who with melodious Strains, 
 
 Once charm’d the ravilh’d Nymphs on Libyan Plains, 
 Now boafts through verdant Fields his rich Attire, 
 Whofe love-fick Look betrays a fecret Fire; 
 
 Himfelf his Song beguil’d, and feiz’d his Mind 
 With pleafing Flames for other Hearts defign’d. 
 
 All thefe ask little Care when once they take; 
 They want no more the lab’ring Spade and Rake; 
 Fine Mould and Water will their Wants fuffice. 
 
 For fo much Lovelinefs an ealy Price. 
 
 I 
 
 Nor lhall the Marigold unmention’d die, 
 
 Which Acts once found out in Sicily ; 
 
 * 
 
 She Rhtzbus loves, and from him draws her Hue, 
 And ever keeps his golden Beams in view. 
 
 Near to the Box along the Border’s Side, -n 
 
 Stock-Gilliflowers begin to open wide s. 
 
 Their Bloom, with various red diverfify’d ; J 
 
 But 
 
Book I. 
 
 27 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Bat ah ! preferve them from too free an Air ; 
 
 Their Scent and Beauty join to court your Care; 
 And fince they will not Winter’s Cold endure. 
 
 The tender Plants from threat’ning Winds lecure ; 
 From Danger free they may in Pots be fet. 
 
 That if November mourn with drenching wet. 
 
 You may within Doors lodge ’em fafe from harm. 
 And keep in Vaults the tender Beauties warm. 
 
 Sambucus too from Gneldrids Plains will come, 
 Dreft in white Robes flie fhews a Rofelike Bloom, 
 Be kind, and give the lovely Stranger Room, 
 
 I 
 
 The good ‘Pojlhumius chofe the firft of May^ 
 To Flora facred, and oblerv’d the Day 
 With holy rural Rites; that, won by Pray’r, 
 
 She might diffufe her Bleflings o’er the Year : 
 
 His ruftick Neighbours in green Privet dreft. 
 
 With ftrid Devotion kept the chearful Feaft. 
 
Of Flowers. Book I. 
 
 And crown’d with Chaplets did to Flora bring 
 The fir ft andfrefheft Beauties of the Spring, 
 
 But after Aries fetting leaves the Skies, 
 
 New Bloftoms in a plenteous Harveft rife ; 
 
 If Merc'ry from his mild propitious Star 
 Favours his Mother’s Month with gentle Air, 
 
 Nor from the watry Goat impetuous Rain 
 Pours out its Rage, and deluges the Plain. 
 
 The fertile Earth will boaft a large Supply, 
 
 Array’d in Nature’s richeft Livery ; 
 
 And purer Air with Fragrance will be fill’d 
 
 From the Perfumes which Shrubs and T amarisks yield. 
 
 Now gentle Cicer and the verdant Broom , 
 
 And fweet Egyptian Beans are in their Bloom ; 
 Rofemary , and Sage with her Companion Rue y 
 Rugged Acanthus , fhining Feaverfeu . /, 
 
 And Tarfey, once the IJlhmian Vidors due, 
 SDamcs-Vilets , and Thalicfrum will appear, 
 
 And loole Satyrion in her fcatter’d Kair, 
 
 Spider- 
 
Book 1, Of T LOWER S. 2 p 
 
 And Spiderwort from Tdauphiny' s wide Plain, 
 
 And Thyme , and White-thorn , and Valerians reign, 
 Ifopyrum , Sedums , Snapdragons , and ftrong 
 Arcadian Moly fam’d in Homer's Song. 
 
 All thefe will rife from Seed with little Care : 
 
 Let not your Garden want one blooming Fair, 
 
 Or grateful Scent ; left fparing of your Pains, 
 
 You leave expos’d to Shame the naked Scenes: 
 
 Nor can your Labour fail, if you but know 
 The proper Mould, and Seafon when to fow. 
 
 Erect in all her crimlbn Pomp you’ll fee 
 With bufliy Leaves the graceful Tiony, 
 
 Whofe BluPnes might the Praife of Virtue claim. 
 
 But her vile Scent betrays they rife from Shame. 
 Happy her Form, and innocent her red. 
 
 If while Alcmous bleating Flock fire fed, 
 
 An heav’nly Lover had not fought her Bed : 
 WwzsThoebus Crime, who to his Arms allur’d 
 A Maid from all Mankind by Pride focur’d. 
 
 Convol- 
 
3 ° 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 Convolvulus will next in boundlefs Stores 
 Cloath the moift Valley with impeded Flow’rs; 
 Thefe rude Efiays were firft for Lillies meant. 
 When Nature on a nobler Work intent, 
 
 Firft took the Pencil and began to paint 
 
 Gay Larkheels loon, and Bottles will o’erruu 
 The fields with numerous Crops, tho’ never (own ; 
 Bafd with Monks-hood full ofpois’nous Juice, 
 Painted Moth-mullein , Fennel , Hops, produce 
 A vary’d Scene in Figure and in Hue, 
 
 And the rich Beds with endlefs Graces ftrew. 
 
 By thefe and thoufand namelefs Flow’rs befide, 
 Gardens are now with choice Perfumes fupply’d; 
 ’Tis the gay Month of all the ufeful Year : 
 
 All Nature Indies, refrelh’d with purer Air. 
 
 The now chear’d Nightingales with tuneful Lays 
 Welcome the Zephyrs , while the Earth difplays 
 
 Her 
 
Book I. 
 
 3 1 
 
 Of Flowers, 
 
 Her flow’ry Bofom to his gentle Gale; 
 
 The frisking Lambkins wanton o’er the Vale, 
 
 And with new Joy the chearful Seafon hail. 
 
 Vain were the Task, the barb’rous Labour vain. 
 
 To force me to the noify Town again* 
 
 From rural Joys which in this Seafon reign. 
 
 How blefs’d thofe Joys ! How biefs’d the rural State ! 
 Oh! I’de indulge would fome propitious Fate, 
 
 Kind to my Willi, now grant me a Repofe 
 
 On Cherr’s fweet Banks, where with the Loir he flows ; 
 
 . * 
 
 Where Tours her Head majeftically rears, 
 
 And France in all her rural Pomp appears. 
 
 Hail, parent Soil, with num’rous Gardens ftor’d, 
 Delights like thine not Bantine Groves afford, 
 j Nor foft Ferenturriy nor Surrentine Hills, 
 
 Nor Sabine Vallies fed with murm ring Rills : 
 
 | Not rich (3 ebalia King Fhalantus Field, 
 
 Or Tibur's Shades a rival Scene can yield. 
 
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4 
 
 Book I. 
 
 li Of Flowers. 
 
 Thy Coad with Springs and Brooks enamell’d feems, 
 While dretching Meadows grace thy larger Streams. 
 Thy rifing Hills with fruitful Vines are crown’d; 
 
 Thy proud Inhabitants with Wealth abound, \ 
 
 * l 
 
 For Silks well wrought in artful Looms renown’d. J 
 All Sort of Indudry employs their time,' 
 
 Bled with kind Tempers and a gentle Clime ; 
 
 Here Spring eternal reigns, perpetual Shade 
 Adorns their Groves ; the Meadows dill are fpread 
 With new-born Grafs; no Cold the Gardens fear. 
 Adorn’d with Fruit and Blodoms all the Year. 
 
 Through fuch a Countrey flows the filvet Sein, 
 Such Medline's Hills are, fuch the neighb’ring Plain 
 To fair St. Clou , fo charming to the Eye 
 The pleafant Fields of Richlieu's Ruel lye ; 
 
 The Mommorantian Valley, and the Height 
 Of fam’d St. Germains facred Royal Seat. 
 
 No 
 
Book I. 
 
 33 
 
 Of FiOtVERS. 
 
 Thy Walks, Semirnmis^ no more forprize, 
 
 Or pendant Gardens which on Turrets rife ; 
 
 No more let Greece her Orchards vainly dare, 
 
 (Tho’ fraught with Gold, the wakeful Dragon’s Care, ) Y 
 Or fam’d Elyfian Fields , with France compare. ) 
 Taris is now the World’s great Wonder grown. 
 Where Art and Nature all their Power have fliown » 
 Her Palaces in (lately Pomp appear. 
 
 Her fruitful Gardens flourilh all the Years, 
 
 Canals and lhady Groves and Springs abound, 
 Dilpos’d with Grace through all the charming Ground, 
 
 When the moift Hyads Rain in Jutte prepare. 
 Strive to avert th’ impending Storms by Pray’r § 
 
 If Providence vouchfafes to clear the Skies, 
 
 Each Flow’r with Gems th’ enamell’d Earth (upplies* 
 Firil the tall Lychnis proudly rears her Head, 
 
 And rifing Afphodil forfakes her Bed, 
 
 On whofe fweet Root our ruftick Fathers fed, 
 
Book I. 
 
 34 Of F LOWE R s. 
 
 She honour’d by th 'Aferaan Poets Song, 
 
 Has in harmonious Numbers flourilh’d long. 
 
 Now larger Cyanies begin to Ipring, 
 
 Sweet- Sultans nam’d from the Byzantine King ; 
 Shieldlike Nafturtium too, confus’dly Ipread 
 With intermingling Trefoil fills each Bed; 
 
 Once graceful Youths, this laft a Grecian Swain, 
 The firft an Huntfman on the Trojan Plain. 
 
 Soon Summer Cyprefs after thefe appears, 
 
 And clad in green a conic Figure wears, ) 
 
 Call’d by th’ Italian Gard’ner Belvederes. 
 
 With Camomil the purple Columbines 
 In verdant Gardens Ipring when Taurus fhines ; 
 
 And El'campane , the beaut’ous Helen's Flow’r, 
 Mingles among the reft her filver Store : 
 
 Helen whole Charms could Royal Breafts inlpire 
 With fuch fierce Flames as fet the World on Fire 
 
 Then 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 3J 
 
 Then German Foxglove opens wide her Breaft ; 
 
 In fundry Colours are her Bio (To ms dreft ; 
 fCthiops, Woolfbane , red Rofe- campons rife, 
 
 And Calamint eBeem’d for num’rous Dyes; 
 
 Squils too, (which at three different Sealbns blow, 
 Shewing like Maftick when the Hinds lliouid plow ;) 
 And Royal Loo fe-f rife , Larkheels princely Hue, 
 With Honey worts and all th’ ignobler Crew. 
 
 But richefi Odours the fofc Air perfume. 
 
 While now mild Zephyrs blow, and Rofe-trees bloom* 
 The Gardens Queen in ail her Glory Ihews, 
 
 As the green Trees their purple Buds difclofe : 
 Withdraw your Charms then all ye meaner Train, 
 
 ♦ 
 
 And yield where Majefly and Beauty reign : 
 Compar’d with her the ruddy Morn feems pale. 
 
 And confcious Cynthia' s warning Beauties fail. 
 
 The Role that fear’d to trull the yelter Sun, 
 
 But in clofe Folds continu’d Bill unblown, 
 
 D % Now 
 
Book I. 
 
 3 6 0/ Flowers. 
 
 Now no ftrong Tye her fwelling Leaves retrains. 
 Breaks through, impatient of her former Chains; 
 Wide o’er the Garden now file iheds Perfumes, 
 Unrumples her fwoln Buds and gayly blooms ; 
 
 Her Looks difcover what flie once has been. 
 
 Her Blufhes fhow her chafte, her Air a Queen : 
 Common Report miftook, which falfly faid 
 The Rofe was once an Amazonian Maid : 
 
 She was a Grecian born, gave Corinth Laws, 
 
 And Fame proclaim’d her Worth with fuch Applaufe, 
 That youthful Rivals for her Favour drove. 
 
 And high-born Kings were Candidates for Love. 
 Valiant Halefus firft her Suitor came, 
 
 Who Soldier-like difclos’d his bolder Flame ; 
 
 Then Brias , born near the fev’n Beds of Nile y 
 And Areas , laden with rich Theban Spoil ; 
 
 Trophies and Laurels at her Feet he laid, 
 
 And hop’d who won a Town, might win a Maid : 
 
 But 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 But haughty fhe (for Beauty caus’d her Pride) 
 Provok’d with their Addrefles proudly cry’d, 
 From Arms and not Entreaties feek a Bride. 
 
 Nor deigning to receive their vain Replies, 
 
 With arm’d Attendants to the Temple flies; 
 With her the young, the old, a num’rous Train, 
 Throng to Apollo ' s and 'Diane? § Fane ; 
 
 Suppliant the Nymph before the Altar bows. 
 And prays the Goddefs to preferve her Vows. 
 The Kings enrag’d their num’rous Force unite. 
 And breaking through the Doors begin the Fight 
 Encouraging her Guards the Princefs glows 
 With martial Ardour and repells her Foes ; 
 
 But whether Valour mixt with Shame might add 
 Force to her, Eyes or that in Armour clad ; 
 Fairer fhe feem’d, the Multitude amaz’d. 
 
 With more than ufual Admiration gaz’d. 
 
 Call’d her the Goddefs, broke Diana's Shrine, 
 And plac’d their Princefs there as more divine. 
 
Book I. 
 
 3* 
 
 Of Flo w e r s. 
 
 When pow’rful Thosbus, warm in the Defence 
 Of his chafte Sifter, curbs their Infolence ; 
 
 And while his biafting Flames revengeful fly, 
 
 The Queen repents fhe feem’d a Deity. 
 
 Faft in the Shrine her Foot takes hold and cleaves. 
 Her Arms ftretch’d cut are cover’d o’er with Leaves j 
 Tho’ chang’d into a Flower her Pomp remains. 
 
 And lovely ftiil, and ftiil a Queen fhe reigns. 
 
 The Crowd for their Offence this Doom abide. 
 Shrank into Thorns to guard her Beauties Pride. 
 Thrice happy fhe, had they not vainly ftrove a 
 
 With Rites divine her Honour to improve, 
 
 Nor Incenfe paid her for a Subject’s Love. > 
 
 Brias a Worm, Areas a Drone became, 
 
 A Butterfly Halefus ; with like Flame 
 They felt at firft, about her they refort. 
 
 Whole Days, and ftiil her charming Fragrance court. 
 
 £ut Rofes firft of the fair Train decay* 
 
 Slighted their Sun, but fhorteft is their Day ; 
 
 Misfor- 
 
Book I. Of Flowers. 
 
 Misfortunes thus on Excellence attend. 
 
 And richeft Bleffings fooneft find an End. 
 
 Yet who within the Limits of a Verfe, 
 
 Can all thefe various Kinds and Names rehearfe : 
 An hundred Leaves, a thoufand lb me compofe, 
 Crifp’d up and curl’d ; befide the fingle Rofe , 
 
 ‘ Damasks , Numidians , charming Jeric hoes , 
 
 On which in Portugal fvveet Cijius grows; 
 
 Ev’n Soils when dreft with lome peculiar Care, 
 Uncommon Rofes without Thorns will bear ; 
 
 But with lels Danger may this W ork be lpar d, 
 Beauty’s ne’er fafe when left without a Guard. 
 Now lovely Spikenard will the Garden grace, 
 Spikenard which only to the Rofe gives Place. 
 
 Yet we the Lois of Rofes better bear. 
 
 Since tvhen Orion mounts our Hemifphere, 
 
Book I. 
 
 4 o Of Flowers. 
 
 High grows the Tuberofe , and dildains the Pot, 
 Nam’d by the French from her thick tub’rous Root; 
 She from the Indies to the Gallic Shore 
 By a French Merchant was of late brought o’er : 
 Curious Calabria next receiv’d the Fair, *) 
 
 And Rome and Italy bellow’d their Care > 
 
 On her, whofe Charms all Europe now does fhare,. ) 
 On taper Stems her Blofloms fweet and white 
 Perfume the Garden and regale the Sight ; 
 
 But if this beaut’ous Srranger you admire 
 Before all others, flie’ll your Care require ; 
 
 In Ibme feledled Vale protect the Flow’r, 
 
 And keep her fafe from each injurious Shovv’r, 
 LellWind or Rain your blooming Hopes deftroy. 
 
 Or fcorching Sirius walle the fnort-liv’d Joy ; 
 
 A Beauty worth inviting o’er the Seas, 
 
 Our Gardens native Pride with foreign Charms t’ en- 
 creafe. 
 
 Nor 
 
Book 1 . 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Nor Martagons their Luftre now deny, 
 
 Which curling backward boaft a Icarlet Dye, 
 
 Like Lillies figur’d, if their Leaves were bent 
 Not too far back, they breath no other Scent, 
 
 Shining Chryfanthes you will now behold 
 With purple Leaves, enrich’d with Threads of Gold ; 
 And tho’ Sweet Marjoram will your Garden paint 
 With no gay Colours, yet preferve the Plant, 
 
 Whofe Fragrance will invite your kind Regard, 
 
 When her known Virtues have her Worth declar’d: 
 On Simois Shore fair Venus rais’d the Plant, 
 
 Which from the Goddefs Touch deriv’d her Scent. 
 
 The Milfoil next her thouland Leaves dilplays, ^ 
 And various Iris will command your Praife, \ 
 With Hollibocks, Flax and Melilots golden Rays. ) 
 Ref harrow whole tough Root obllrudts the Plough 
 Curs’d by the Hind her ruddy Face will ihew. 
 
 If 
 
Book I. 
 
 42. Of Flowers. 
 
 If now co Gardens Crowds of Females come, 
 They need not fpare the many Flowers in Bloom, S- 
 But gather’d into Baskets bear ’em home ; j 
 
 Which will in Pofies Ladies Breafts adorn. 
 
 Or plaited into Wreaths may round their Heads be 
 worn. 
 
 But here forewarn’d let tender Virgins fly 
 Raili Cleopatra's Fate, nor feek to die, 
 
 And guiltlels Flow’rs to impious Ufe apply. 
 
 When vanquifh’d Anthony from A 51 him fled, 
 
 And thence the Ruins of his Army led ; 
 
 Th’ Egyptian Queen too prodigally brave, 
 
 To grace Rome's Triumph, as a Royal Slave ; 
 
 From AJps in Flow’rs conceal’d, receiv’d her Fate, 
 And with her Husband dy’d, moft obflinately great. 
 
 Yet in good Service Flow’rs may be employ’d, 
 
 To crown full Bowls, or deck the Toilets Pride; 
 
 On 
 
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Book I. 
 
 43 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 On Cupboards plac’d be living Ornaments, 
 
 And far through Ipacious Courts difFufe their Scents ; 
 While fome with Wreaths of well mixt Flow’rs defign 
 On folemn Feafls to grace the facred Shrine; 
 
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 While Princes eat in State, the coltly Bed 
 And fumpt’ous Table may with Flow’rs be fpread. 
 
 Or with Iweet Herbs and cholen Bloffoms ftor’d, 
 Diihes are garnilh’d for the Mailer’s Board. 
 
 Others in Limbecks or an hollow Glals 
 O’er living Embers juicy Flow rs will place, 
 
 Th’ afcending Steam rais’d by the pow’rful Heat, 
 
 To the cold Veflel cleaves in clammy Sweat ; 
 
 Till by Degrees condens’d it Liquor grows. 
 
 And through the Spout the trickling Moilture flows : 
 Thus the pure Spirits are drawn out by Fire 
 Into Hill’d Waters and new Strength acquire. 
 
 While 
 
44 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 A ' ; 
 
 Whileforae from Flow’rs long bruis’d, rich Oils pre- 
 pare. 
 
 Or Powders to perfume the flowing Hair : 
 
 Such was rich Capua's, Wealth, whofe od’rous Charms 
 Debauch’d the Tunic Chiefs victorious Arms; 
 
 When to revenge Elifa's Wrongs, tho’ late, 
 
 He threaten’d Ruin to the Roman State. 
 
 I need not here the Birth of Painting trace, 
 
 From Nature’s Practice in her flow’ry Race; 
 
 Nor tell how firfl: by imitating them, 
 
 The Ufe of Colours and their Mixture came ; 
 
 Or how fair Glycera's, inftruCtive Aid 
 Of Tanfias once a skilful Painter made ; 
 
 Who copying all the beaut’ous Flow’rs fhe brought, 
 
 A thoufand Colours with his Pencil wrought ; 
 
 Or how from thence the figur’d Silks receive. 
 
 The Dyes which Indian Artifts interweave. 
 
 Honey 
 
 i 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers, 
 
 Honey, the golden Giftofheav’nly Powers, 
 From Flora's Tribe draws all its lulcious Stores, 
 The Work of Gardens, and the Fruit ofFlow’rs. 
 Thence Bees induftrious fuck th’ ambrofial Dews, 
 And into pureft Honey work their Juice. 
 
 Perhaps I Ihould their Pow’rs in Med’cine ling. 
 What fpeedy Aid to Limbs difeas’d they bring; 
 What needful Gifts of healing they retain, 
 
 Form’d by the Gods to leffen mortal Pain ; 
 
 Did not my copious Subjed bid me fpare 
 Such Wandrings, and purfue my weighty Care, 
 
 Sweetly near Taris feated on the Sein % 
 
 In fingle State there liv’d an happy Swain, 
 
 Whole little Garden was his whole Affair, 
 
 Eas’d of all publick and domeftick Care ; 
 
 And tho’ he call’d no wealthy Farms his own. 
 Nor his low Room with coftly Arras flione ; 
 
Book I. 
 
 4 6 Of Flowers. 
 
 Yet fomething for old Age he kept, a Field 
 Which more than Ipacious Provinces could yield ; 
 For Flow’rs procur’d from Regions far remote, 
 
 And virtuous Plants from diftant Mountains brought, 
 He treafur’d up at Home ; the ufeful Stores 
 Improv’d by Art, employ’d his grateful Hours: 
 
 He could their latent Qualities reveal, 
 
 Nor would their Virtues from his Friends conceal 
 Nor Day nor Night the Street was ever clear 
 And fickly Tribes, came crowding for his Care. 
 They in whofe Blood the burning Fever reigns. 
 
 Or watry Dropfy or Scorbutick Pains ; 
 
 Who difficultly breath, oppreft with Hear, 
 
 With trembling Joints and Hearts that always beat, 
 Whole defp’rate State Phyficians long gave o’er, 
 
 His Flow’rs and Herbs to perfedt Health reftore; 
 
 But the kind Healer’s Praife and Patient’s Jov, 
 
 May wing fome abler Mufe, fome brighter Verfe em- 
 ploy. 
 
 In 
 
4 7 
 
 Book I. Of F l OWERS. 
 
 In Summer Months will GranadiUa fliew 
 Her Bloom, which firft in Amazonia blew. 
 
 And grac’d the Shore Lent hither from Bern. 
 
 On lofty Stems indented Leaves adorn 
 The Bloffoms, which with Prickles, as the Thorn, 
 Our Saviour’s Paflion in their Form declare. 
 
 Shew all thebarb’rous Nails and bloody Spear: 
 
 For from the midft a three-fork’d Chive Ihe rears, 1 
 And each bent Grain like a crook’d Nail appears. 
 
 And now her Bloflom, fpeck’d with motley Grace, 
 
 Frit'lary opes, and Buglos fliows her Face, 
 
 While lovely Hefperis , Rumex , Maiden-hair , 
 
 From Bhoebus Rays reflected Beauty fhare.j 
 
 But when the Sun fhall through warm Cancer ride. 
 Carnations will difplay their mat chiefs Pride; 
 
 So fweet the Odours from their Bloffoms flow, 
 
 So fair to Sight the beauteous Bloffoms ihow. 
 
 Their 
 
Book I; 
 
 48 Of Flowers. 
 
 Their deep divided Leaves all jag’d and ltain’d, 
 
 By the wide Pod at Bottom are reftrain’d, > 
 
 And in a {welling Tuft or Orb detain’d: J 
 
 But tender are the Lay’rs-, and hard to raife, 
 
 And claim a Labour equal to their Praife ; 
 
 Nor Third:, nor Heat, nor Rains, not Cold they bear* 
 But dread th’ unkind Extremes of Earth or Air. 
 Stri&ly the watchful Florid: mult attend 
 The promis’d Birth, and his fair Charge defend i 
 AlTwage their daily Third: with frefh Supplies, 
 
 When jP hoe bus climbs, and when he leaves the Skies, V 
 Elle their imperfect Beauty fades and dies. J 
 
 And thou, whole BlolToms curl obliquely back) 
 Rib’d on the Sides with a bright fcarlet Break* 
 
 Shalt of T)ay-Lilly the fair Name receive. 
 
 If one whole Summer’s Day thy Beauties live : 
 
 Thele into Garlands may the Virgins twine 
 When frelh and plenteous on the Beds they lhine. 
 
 If 
 
49 
 
 Book I* Of Fl OWlRSi 
 
 If in your Garden Broom-rape chance t’ appear* 
 The frisking Heifers muft not venture near ; 
 
 If they but tafte the hot falacious Plant, 
 
 They feek the Bull and court him from his Haunt 5 
 Hence often Herds flung with refifllefs Love, 
 
 Scour through the Woods, and o’er the Meadows rove. 
 
 Now on high Stems will Matricaria rear 
 Her Giver Blooms, and with her will appear 
 Thlafpis a Cretan Youth, who won the Fair: 
 Happy if more aufpicious Hymen's Rites 
 Had with pure Flames adorn’d their nuptial Lights. 
 
 By fbrne cool Spring, where Peace and Plenty flows j 
 Th’ indented moifl Germander joyful grows : 
 
 Both Kinds of Orchis of both Dyes will reign, 
 Prevent your Culture, and your Art difdam. 
 
 Now may the Mule prefage that, clad in white. 
 Gardens with filver Stores will charm the Sight* 
 
Book I. 
 
 50 Of Flowe rs. 
 
 And Lillies blofiom on high Stems of green, 
 
 Unlefs the ling’ring Summer fpoils the Scene. 
 
 With Lillies our French Monarchs grace their 
 Crown, 
 
 Brought hither by the valiant HeCtor ' s Son, 
 
 From Trojan Coafb, when Francus forc’d by Fate 
 Old Tr'um's Kingdom did to France tranflate: 
 
 Or if we may believe what Legends tell. 
 
 Like Rome's Ancylia , once from Heav’n they fell. 
 Clovis firfl Chriftian of our regal Line, 
 
 Of Heav’n approv’d, receiv’d the Gift divine 
 With his unblemilh’d Hand*, and by Decree 
 Ordain’d this Shield giv’11 by the Gods Ihould be L 
 Preferv’d, the Nations Guard to late Poflcrity. ^ 
 Now Lewis reign*, high on the facred Shrine 
 Of Peace, thefe providential Arms lhall Urine 
 I11 brighteft white. Him all theW’orld lhall fear; 
 Deftrudtion and the dire EfFedtsof War, 
 
 Injuft ice. 
 
Book I. Of V lowers. yi 
 
 Injuftice, Rapine, Fraud, from hence fliall ceafe. 
 
 And all the conquer’d Nations fue for Peace. 
 
 But fee where Clyde, pale with vain Defires, 
 Bows her weak Neck, and 5P hoe bus ftill admires? 
 
 On rufliy Stems Ihe lifts her felf on high. 
 
 And courts a Glance from his enliv’ning Eye: 
 
 Nor while the Sun keeps in the torrid Zone, 
 
 Will Clyde by her felf appear alone. 
 
 Crocus and Stnilax once a loving Pair, 
 
 But now transform’d delightful BlofToms bear ; 
 
 And Toppy will ered her tufted Head, 
 
 And Earth be with a thoufand Beauties fpread ; 
 
 In this one Flow’r her wealthy Pride Ihe fhows, 
 
 In this one Flow’r, which fhe to Ceres ows; 
 
 Some Silver white, fome dy’d With fearlet Stains, 
 Their lofty Heads unite t’ enrich the Plains : 
 
 The pow’rful Seeds when prefs’d afford a Juice, 
 
 In Med’cine famous, and of fov’reigu ufe, 
 
 E % 
 
 Whether 
 
Book I. 
 
 52 Of Flowers. 
 
 Whether in tedious Nights it charm to Reft, 
 
 Or bind the ftubborn Cough, and eafe the laboring 
 Bread, 
 
 Grecian Eringoes now commence their Fame, } 
 Which worn by Brides will fix their Husband’s Flame,/* 
 And check the Conquefts of a rival Dame : 
 
 Thus Sappho charm’d her Ehaon, and did prove 
 (If there be truth in Verfe) his Faith in Love. 
 
 Butwhilft the fiery Dogftar bums the Fields, 
 
 And no cool watry Cloud Refrelhment yields, 
 
 W hi e Night’s chill Dews the early Sun dilpells, 
 
 And Mountains Shades now late o’ercaft the Vales < 
 'With plenteous Draughts allay the thirfty Flames, 
 Water your Garden with adopted Streams j 
 To fainting Plants dilpenle a vital PowY, 
 
 And Beauties half expir’d in time reftore. 
 
 They drink no longer now the Morning Dew, 
 
 Nor with its balmy Drops their Strength renew. 
 
 Among 
 
Book I. Of Flowers, < 5J 
 
 ... i 
 
 Among thofe num’rous Produds of the Earth, 
 Which to the dying Summer owe their Birth, 
 Immortal Amaranthufes appear 
 Diftinguilh’d, by the Ornaments they wear, 
 
 From all the vulgar Flow’rs which now abound, 
 Profufely grow, and riot o’er the Ground. 
 
 As Clary , Hatchet-vetches , Virgins-bow'r , 
 
 Apum , red Hedifarum, Fennel- Flow'r ; 
 
 Thole Marigolds which are in Marlhes bred, 
 Fleabane , Angelica , Sweet-williams , Wo ad, 
 
 And Coriander trembling on a Thread ; ) 
 
 Now Barberries, Southernwoods , and Myrrh will ^ 
 rife, 
 
 Balm , Qxeye , and ftrong Centauries, 
 
 And Stcechas, Henbane , Mint, and Succory s ; 
 
 Calendula too Ihows her fpotted Face, *) 
 
 ( 
 
 All thefe now paint the Meads with various Grace, > 
 Summer producing one, Autumn another Race, j 
 
 E 3 Thus 
 
 
54 0/ Flowers. Book I, 
 
 Thus every Seafon in the annual Round 
 Is with its own peculiar Beauties crown’d. 
 
 Then Attick Star , fo nam’d in Grecian Ufe, 
 
 But call’d Amelias by the Mantuan Mule, 
 
 In Meadows reigns near Tome cool Riv’lets Side, 
 
 Or marlhy Vales where winding Currents glide ; 
 Wreaths of thi§ gilded Flow’f the Shepherds twine. 
 When Grapes now ripe in Clutters load the Vine. 
 
 Late from Japans remotest Region lent, 
 
 Narciflits came array’d in fcarlet Paint, 
 
 Rich Spots of yellow flain the precious Flow’r, 
 
 As if be*iprinkled with a golden Show’r : 
 
 The radiant Tinctures may with Tap’itry vye. 
 
 And proudly emulate the Tyrian Dye ; 
 
 This Flow’r, ye skilful Florifts, often plant. 
 
 Let not our Nation this fair Beauty want ; 
 
 If 
 
 And tho’ fhe anfwer not your common Care, 
 
 No Coif or Labour on her Dreiling ipare; 
 
 For 
 
Book I. Of Flowers, 5) 
 
 For fhould 4he but her conqu’ring Charms difplay, 
 From ev’ry Fair lhe bears the Prize away. 
 
 In Spring and Autumn let your timely Care, 
 Luxuriant Box on o’ergrown Borders Ihear, 
 
 Moiften’d with kindly Show’rs you may command 
 The pliant Twigs obedient to your Hand. 
 
 All Flow’rs arife not from one genial Caufe, 
 
 Nor their Obedience yield to common Laws: 
 
 Some rife from Seed, from tub’rous Roots fome flioot, 
 Some raife their Glories from a bulbous Root. 
 
 Thefe latter taken up from out their Bed, 
 
 Should in October, on long Tables fpread, 
 
 Be to the Sun expos’d, that by his Heat, 
 
 Th’ extradted Moifture may evaporate ; 
 
 Then fhortly after deep intrench’d in Mould 
 They profper, and delpife the Winter s Cold. 
 
 E 4 
 
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Of F LOWERS. 
 
 Book I. 
 
 To no like Care will tub’rous Roots pretend. 
 Once fet, they deep fpontaneoufly defcend : 
 
 But bulbous Roots unlefs deep fet are loft, 
 
 Obnoxious equally to Drought and Frofh 
 
 If you Ihould doubt the time for fowing Seed, 
 
 Nor find your Gard’ners in their Schemes agreed, 
 Obferve when Scorpio , tho’ with lazy Feet 
 Afcends the Skies Erigone to meet, 
 
 TV hen midft the Clouds hoarle Cranes with Clangor fly 
 And march with flagging Pinions through the Sky ; 
 No Seafon’s fitter, if to aid their Pow’r, 
 
 The rainy Autumn fome few Days before 
 Has warm’d the Ground with but a gentle Show’r ; 
 Then Mother Earth will in her Womb diffule, 
 
 About their Roots her kind prolifick Juice. 
 
 But left too frequent Rain the Roots annoy, 
 
 And ftagnate Waijer fhould your Hopes deftroy, 
 
 Raife 
 
Book I. 
 
 57 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 Kaife but your Borders in the lead Degree, 
 
 And all the Plants are from this Danger free. 
 
 The King’s chief Gard’ner practis’d firft this way, 
 
 And taught his Servants round the Beds to lay ; 
 
 He the great Mailer, who of all the' reft. 
 
 Improv’d a Garden, and adorn’d it bell. 
 
 * 
 
 If you with Flow’rs would flock the pregnant Earth, 
 Mark well the Moon propitious to their Birth : 
 
 For Earth the filent Midnight Queen obeys. 
 
 And waits her Courle, who clad in filver Kays 
 Th’ eternal Round of Times and Sealons guides, 
 Controlls the Air, and o’er the Winds preftdes. 
 
 Four Days expir’d you have your time to low. 
 
 Till to the full th’ encreafing Moon fliall grow, 
 
 This paft, your Labour you Jn vain bellow : 
 
 Nor let the Gard’ner dare to plant a Flow’r, 
 
 While on his Work the Heav’ns ill-boding low’r ; 
 When Moons forbid, forbidding Moons obey. 
 
 And haften when the Stars inviting Beams difplay. - 
 
 Some 
 
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 5 & - Of F l o w e r s. ' Book I. 
 
 \ 
 
 Some Florids can with Art correct the Seed, 
 
 Can fwell the Bloflom, and improve the Breed ; 
 Hence larger Blooms the narrow Pod dilate. 
 
 And Flow’rs appear with more than ufual State. 
 
 Some will the Colours drive to redtify, 
 
 And teach the Leaves to take a brighter Dye, 
 
 With Sweets unufual to perfume the Air, 
 
 And in new Robes a richer Form to wear. 
 
 Beyond the Seafcn fome keep back the Race, 
 
 Or force their Birth and quicken Nature’s Pace ; 
 Which cheap Delights with eafy Care obtain’d, 
 
 Will follow from the Gardner’s skilful Hand. 
 
 The fliining African with golden Head 
 And in an handfome verdant Robe array’d, 
 
 Bears the hot Seafon while the Dogdar reigns. 
 
 And yet with Eafe the Winter Blads fudains; 
 
 Brave Charles of Aujlria from the ‘P time Shore 
 Sent thefe to Spain when Tunis felt his Pow’r- 
 
 But 
 
Bpok I. Of F l O W E R S, 
 
 But whilft December with fierce Rigour reigns. 
 And pinching Froft the harden’d Ground reftrains. 
 In Scythia's freezing Clime black Hellebores , 
 Beneath the northern Pole expofe their Flow’rs; 
 And Aconite on Alpine Hills we fin , 
 
 Of which each Sealbn boafts a difi ’rent Kind. 
 
 Terjlan Cyclamens next you’ll lee in Flovv’r, 
 And the Laureola lent from the Shore 
 Of winding Mofe, the Crocus too which fills 
 The airy Height of Jura's lofty Hills. 
 
 Lib’ral of Boughs and Leaves Me zer ion's bold. 
 And Sonchufes defie the lliarpeffc Cold ; 
 
 In bleakell Months his Head Narcifus rears. 
 And Winter Hyacinth no Weather fears : 
 
 Yet againit blading Wind and Winter’s Snow, 
 Your Flow’rs defend with MatrelTes of Straw 
 Till Spring return ; for Cold will oft deface 
 With various Evils all the flow’ry Race. 
 
do Of Flo w e rs. Book I. 
 
 Rut which of all the cruel Deities 
 
 f 
 
 Expos’d the Gardens Pride, fair Emonies , 
 
 Beauties fo tender to luch rigid Dooms, 
 
 For Storms to fhakeand Snow to hide their Blooms? 
 We grateful wilh the more defervingFair, 
 
 A warmer Seafon, and a milder Air. 
 
 For when their op’ning Bloffoms wide they fpread, 
 Their Stripes diffus’d are of fo rich a red; 
 
 So bright their Flames afpire, fo foft their Grace, 
 That not one Rival of the flow’ry Race, 
 
 Can more Admirers boaft, nor dares to vye, 
 
 With their curl’d Leaves, and with their purple Dye. 
 
 Flora with Envy flung, as Tales relate, 
 
 Condemn’d a Virgin to this Change of Fate: 
 
 From Grecian Nymphs her Beauty bore the Prize, 
 Beauty the worft of Crimes in jealous Eyes; 
 
 For as with carelefs Steps fhe trod the Plain, 
 
 Courting the Winds to fill her flowing Train, 
 
 , Sufpi- 
 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers! 61 
 
 Sufpicious Flora fear’d (he fooii would prove 
 Her Rival in her Husband Zephyr's Love. 
 
 So the fair Vidim fell, whofe Beauties Light, 
 
 Had been more lafting, had it been lefs bright 9 
 She tho’ transform’d as charming as before. 
 
 The faireft Maid is now the faireft Flow’r. 
 
 Fame does this other different Story tell, 
 
 When by a Boar’s iharp Tusk Adonis fell ; 
 
 This Flow’r alone to Venus gave Relief 
 Charm’d the fair Goddefs, and (upprefs’d her Grief : 
 For while what’s mortal from his Blood (he freed. 
 And Show’rs of Tears on the pale Body (hed. 
 
 Lovely Anemonies in Order rofe. 
 
 And veil’d with purple Palls the Caufe of all her Woes. 
 
 But fince (b num’rous Colours they put on. 
 
 In (pacious Cafes full of Mould I’ve known. 
 
 Their various Seed and Race promifcuous (own. 
 
 Hence 
 
Hence when the BlofToms open with Surprize, 
 
 T \ . .x . 
 
 The fair Confufion charms our wond’ring Eyes : 
 Thus the great Orleans us’d with princely Care, 
 At Luxenbnrgh thefe beauteous Flow’rsto rear; 
 And while their mingled Charms the Bafin grac’d, 
 Requir’d it always on his Table plac’d, 
 
 To entertain his Court and crown the Feaft. 
 
 In winter Months of all the flow’ry Kind, 
 
 Let thefe your Aid and artful Culture find; 
 
 Wide in the Garden let them fpread their Train* 
 And with difFufive Pride luxuriant reign ; 
 
 Whole radiant Treafures can alone repair 
 The Spoils of furious Storms and walteful Air: 
 For when the Trees their falling Honours mourn, 
 And from on high Aquarius pours his Urn, 
 
 Their Scarlet will through Autumn’s Ruin ihine, 
 Tho’ more in Spring their Tindture they refine; 
 For the fair Emony kind Zephyr loves, 
 
 And in Return by his Command Ihe moves. 
 
Book I. 
 
 Of Flowers. 
 
 *3 
 
 But while the Garden fhines with various Dyes*0| 
 Lift up from Earth to Heav’n your grov’ling Eyes: , 
 Survey the Luftre of thofe blifsful Bow’rs, 
 
 Crown’d with as many Stars, as Earth with Flow’rs 5 
 Then wond’ring your exalted Fancy raife. 
 
 And thefe admiring, their Creator praife. 
 
 OF 
 
64 
 
 Book II* 
 
 O F 
 
 GARDENS. 
 
 
 Rook II. 
 
 Of TREES. 
 
 G ROVES next and weli-rang’d Trees ray 
 Mufe invite, 
 
 Groves ever pleafe, but molt when plac’d 
 aright. 
 
 Without a Shade no Beauty Gardens know. 
 
 And all the Countrey’s but a naked Show. 
 
 Ye 
 
V 
 
Book IL Of Trees* 
 
 ' 1 ' " ‘ ; N \ - 
 
 Ye (acred Woods affift thefe Sylvan Strains# 
 
 Ye who can bed reward the Mufes Pains : 
 
 Grant that a Bough may by your Gift adorn 
 My Brows, when Bays by other Bards are worn. 
 
 Oaks bend their Heads attentive to my Lays* 
 
 And clap their Boughs, andfpeak their Poet’s Praifei 
 And Gallia from her Woods with echoing Voice, 
 Repeats th’ Applaufe, and greets my happy Choice! 
 Cytheron jfhall no more my Fancy move, 
 
 No more Molorchus or ‘Dodonas Grove; 
 
 Nor where Arcadian Nymphs fo often fport, 
 
 To lofty Mxnalus lhall my Mufe refort : 
 
 Calydne with her Holms , a mazy Scene, 
 
 Cyllene's Cyprefs Vallies court in vain ; 
 
 France with her Charms alone my Mule detains, N 
 Where happy Groves embrace the flow’ry Plains, f 
 ' And crown’d with verdant State triumphant Beautyr 
 reigns. ) 
 
 If 
 
 F 
 
66 
 
 ' Of Trees.. 
 
 Book II. 
 
 If you’d a pleafant Countrey Houfe defign, 
 
 The eaftern Front mud on the Garden join, 
 
 Which with long Rows of folding Windows grac’d. 
 Will with the morning Sun and Sweets be bleft. 
 
 But with thick planted Trees that Side defend, ^ 
 Whereon the northern winter Storms defcend, S 
 Or bluft’ring Boreas will the Fabrick rend. 
 
 Boreas all o’er wild Defolation makes, 
 
 Scours o’er the Plains, and tow’ring Forefts fhakes, \ 
 The Vallies groan, and high Olympus quakes. «< 
 Then to the raging Winds a Wood oppole. 
 
 And break their Violence with frequent Boughs. 
 
 Thus Normandy extends her Guard of Trees 
 Againft the Wind which blows from Britijb Seas: 
 High fylvan Fences all the Coal! lurround, 
 
 Divide large Farms and ample Lordlhips bound, 
 
 Their 
 
Book II, 
 
 Of Trees, 
 
 Their Rife and Form proceed my Mufe to fing, 
 Tho’ lofty Oaks fometimes from Suckers Ipring 
 With tow’ring Heads* and when rranfplanted fpread^ 
 And with their Branches cad a noble Shade : 
 
 Yet of all Trees they rear the lofry’lt Brow* 
 
 Which firft from Seeds and fwelling Acorns grow: 
 
 I grant* before they to Perfection come. 
 
 They will in tardy Growth an Age confume. 
 
 Yet then they call a more majeftick Shade, 
 
 And Lofs of Time with Goodnefs is repaid: 
 
 Into the Bowels of the Earth they Ihoot, 
 
 And as they deeper fix their finewy Root, 
 
 In Height furmounting other Trees they rife. 
 
 And darken with their Boughs the very Skies: 
 
 For Seeds and Acorns taught by Time and Ufe, 
 
 The docil Brood no Change of Soil refufe ; 
 
 While Suckers ne’er forget the Parent Tree, 
 
 And when remov’d they with no Soil agree? 
 
68 Of Trees. Book II. 
 
 But with more Tendernefs the Offspring’s nurft 
 There, where it was conceiv’d and Iprang at firft : 
 Then let your Oaks to Acorns owe their Birth, 
 
 Nor yet commit ’em to unbroken Earth : 
 
 Tear up the Ground and the rough Surface plye 
 With Rollers, tili the Plain lhall level lye : 
 
 Nay when young Shoots Iprout from the teeming'N 
 Seeds, 
 
 And rear above the Ground their infant Heads, f 
 Repeat your Labour and deftroy the Weeds : ) 
 
 Their fiery Roots will poifon all the Wood, 
 
 O’errun the Nurfery and prevent the Brood : 
 
 Nor proudly fcorn to urge with painful Toil, 
 
 And well manure the lean unfruitful Soil : 
 
 For Tillage turns the barren Land to Ule, 
 
 Improves and fattens with prolifick Juice. 
 
 By no one conftant Rule the Peafant fows, 
 
 He fometimes Fields with Acorns rudely ftrevvs, 
 
 There 
 
Book II. Of Trees. 69 
 
 There Trees confus’d and wild, perplextly ftray, 
 Obferve no Order and no Rules obey : 
 
 Sometimes with Art he nicely fquares the Plains, 
 
 And in juft Ranks his marlhall’d Trees reft rains ; 
 
 The Grove thus figur’d due Proportion bears 
 In ev’ry Part, and Chelsboard like appears ; 
 
 Where Battels feign’d by boxen Men are fought, 
 
 A Game which Schaccia to th’ Italians taught ; 
 Alternate Colours ftain the painted Board, 
 
 The equal Rows harmonioufly accord, ( 
 
 And ev’ry Way a checquer’d Scene afford. j 
 
 Then whether from old Stocks the Ihooting Breed 
 You flip and plant, or rather fow the Seed ; 
 
 Range well your Trees, for Order is of Ule, 
 
 From hence they fiiare alike their Mother’s Juice ; 
 While in free Air they fpread with pleafing Grace, 
 
 Not ftarve for Want of Food, nor crowd for Want of 
 Space. 
 
 F 3 
 
 When 
 
70 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Book II. 
 
 When firft the Leaves break through the (welling 
 Bud, 
 
 The hopeful Promife of a future Wood, 
 
 All Kind of wanton Cattel far remove, 
 
 And Goats whofe pois’nous Teeth would kill the 
 Grove; 
 
 Let the (wife Steed upon the Mountains neigh, 
 
 And Herds o’er fpacious Meadows freely dray, 
 
 The tender Sproutings only let them fpare, 
 
 For Shoots yet weak require protecting Care : 
 
 Thefe a deep Ditch and quickfet Hedge (hould guard, 
 That brouzing Flocks be from the Cople debarr’d. 
 Soon as in Strength advancing ev’ry Year, 
 
 The Trees on deeper Roots their Bodies rear; 
 
 Yon muft no rank Exuberance allow. 
 
 But wifely prune each too luxuriant Bough ; 
 
 Left with unwieldy Heads the Trunks lhould bend. 
 And all their Sap in ufelefs Branches fpend : 
 
 Thtis 
 
Book II. 
 
 7 1 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Thus early lopt while tender yet and young, 
 
 They rife from Earth more vigorous andftrong, 
 
 As if from Wounds new added Vigour fprung ; 
 
 And Trees which elfe much Time in Growth confume, 
 Aflifted hence foon to Perfection come, 
 
 When with ftrong Roots and hardy Bulk fecure, 
 
 They can the fierceft Winds and Storms endure, 
 
 On the fmooth Barks, ye Shepherds, carve your Songs, 
 Your Strifes and your Amours, whate’er to Swains 
 
 belongs. 
 
 But ah ! no murd’ring Axes let ’em feel, 
 
 Nor violate old Groves with impious SteG • 
 
 From rude Afiaults and Force prophane forbear, 
 Avenging Deities inhabit there i 
 For Poets tell how wounded Oaks have bled, > 
 And human Gore through each Incifion fhed, > 
 Denouncing Terrors from their awful Head. ) 
 
 And thence of old religioufly rever d, 
 
 Their ancient Oaks our pious Fathers fpar’d: 
 
 F 4 Infulting 
 
Book II. 
 
 71 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Infulting thefe by heav’nly Pow’rs belov’d. 
 
 The Rage of Heaven bold Eryjicthon prov’d ; 
 When facrilegious he prefam’d to fell 
 The Thracian Oaks where facred T>ryads dwell; 
 For Ceres at the Nymphs Requeft decreed 
 A fwift Revenge for this prefumptuous Deed. 
 Such is the Crime with barb’rous Force to treat 
 Groves privileg’d by Age, whofe rev’rend Seat, 
 And lhady Horrors Veneration draw, 
 
 And e’en their Silence does the vulgar awe. 
 
 When impious Hands a rude Afiault had made, 
 And hurt the facred Honours of the Shade, 
 
 The Hinds at Tales Shrine Atonements laid. 
 
 Such Honours fam’d T)odona's Grove acquir’d, 
 
 As juftly due to Trees by Heav’n inlpir’d ; 
 
 When once her Oaks did Fates Decrees reveal, 
 
 And wife Men, taught by thefe, could future Truths 
 foreteh 
 
 Now 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 73 
 
 Now when with bulky Trunk and lofty Head, 
 
 Wide through the Woods the Beech begins to Ipread ; . 
 Beneath her Covert may the Shepherds fhare, 
 
 A cool Refrefhment with their fleecy Care ; 
 
 On humble Reeds their Pafllons entertain, 
 
 And flng the beauteous She that charms the Plain, > 
 But far from thence be ev’ry.Mufe obfcene. j 
 
 Their Leaves and Shades and facred Silence prove. 
 That chaftefl Gods thefe fecret Dwellings love ; 
 
 No finful Joy the Virgin Pow’rs endure, 
 
 But purge with Light’ning whatfoe’er’s impure. 
 
 While here the Shepherds flng their rural Song, 
 The feather’d Chorifters around will throng. 
 
 Joining the artlefs Mufick of their Throats, 
 
 * 
 
 Groves too attend and echo back their Notes. 
 Among the reft fweet ThilomeU s Tongue 
 Melodioufly laments inceftuous Wrong; 
 
 Whole 
 
Book II. 
 
 74 Of Trees. 
 
 Whole Days and Nighrs {he curfes Teretis Love, 
 And her foft Notes the Rocks to Pity move, 
 
 If Birds are fuffer’d to frequent the Wood, 
 
 The dubious Change of Weather they forebode; 
 Oft from an hollow Oak betok’ning Rain 
 And raging Winds you’ll hear the Crow complain ; 
 Hence may the Peafant true Prefages take. 
 
 The Storms forefee and -wife Provifion make; 
 
 Yet Puffer no difaft’rous Birds, but chafe 
 
 Far off from ev’ry Tree that ill foreboding Race. 
 
 Mixt with large Oaks as next in Rank and State, 
 Their Kindred Beech and Cerrus claim a Seat ; 
 With thefe let lofty JEjculus be join’d, 
 
 Faireft of all this Acorn bearing Kind; 
 
 Whofe wide extended Boughs fo copious prove. 
 One fhady Tree alone affords a Grove : 
 
 She with deep Roots to th’ Earth fo firmly cleaves, 
 She (lands all Weathers, and all Storms outbraves. 
 
 The 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 The Oak by fuch good Neighbours gladly plac’d. 
 Enjoys its Ground and Ipreads and riles bed ; 
 
 When Fleets and Armies are prepar’d for Wars 
 They furnilh Ships with Planks, the Men with Spears ; 
 For Hearths they Fuel yield, for Hinds the Plough, 
 No friendly Service but an Oak will do. 
 
 The facred Oaks my Axe lhall ever fpare, o 
 
 The conqu’ring Soldiers fliould their Branches fliarejS. 
 And wear thele honourable Rewards of War: * 3 
 
 Hence when a Roman's Life a Roman lav’d, 
 
 An oaken Crown around his Head was weav’d. 
 
 Various are the Reports what Countrey knew 
 The firflf born Qak y which, or by Ladon grew. 
 
 On Manalus , or Chaonia's fertile Plains, 
 
 This Tale in rural Song mod Credit gains': 
 
 When Jove this low terredrial Globe had form’d 
 Huge Giants, Iprung from Earth his Palace form’d ; 
 
 Again!! 
 
Book II. 
 
 76 Of Trees. 
 
 Againft the Gods rebellious War they wag’d, 
 
 Till Jove at fuch Impiety enrag’d, 
 
 Hurling his Thunder on the monftrous Crew, 
 Dilpers’d the Faction foon, the Rebels flew : 
 
 When Mother Earth bewail’d her flaughrer’d Brood, 
 And in her Bofom warm’d her Rheecus Blood, 
 
 Which nouriih’d there, fprouts out transform’d, and 
 Hands, 
 
 Grac’d with as many Boughs as once with Hands ; 
 
 An Oak gigantick from the Corps arofe, 
 
 And a thick Bark did the vaft Trunk inclofe, 
 
 Which Earth then vow’d to Jove's high Patronage, 
 And with her better Offspring charm’d his Rage ; 
 Thus Oaks grew facred in whofe Shelter plac’d. 
 
 The firfl good Men enjoy’d their Acorn FealF 
 
 Great is your Patron, awful are your fliades, 
 
 Yet fear to lift too high your foaring Heads ; 
 
 For while from Jove his hifling Light’ning flies. 
 
 And ratling Thunder rolls along the Skies, 
 
 He 
 
Book II. 
 
 77 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 He with his Bolts th’ afpiring Oak oft tears, 
 
 But Tamarisks and low Myrtles kindly Ipares. 
 
 The Groves remaining Beauties I relate ; 
 
 With Oaks and Beech let Elms and Limes be fet ; 
 Nor Alders will difgrace the Sylvan Scene, 
 
 Nor Maples fam’d for Wood of vary’d Grain; 
 
 The Tine,, which on a Mountain fairly fliows. 
 
 Rears high her Head, and (ketches wide her Boughs ; 
 The Quickbeam with thick Ihooting Hazels join. 
 And Cornels with Orycian Turpentine ; 
 
 Let Titch Trees, AJh Trees, Lote Trees, Willows , 
 grow, 
 
 But root up cruel Birch and pois’nous Eugh ; 
 
 The (piral Firr and Tine lliould Mountains grace, 
 While thick in Woods the intermediate Space > 
 Brambles and prick’ly Bry'rs will poffels : J 
 
 But Wallnuts covet mod an open Plain, 
 
 The fame let lhaggy Junipers obtain. 
 
 With 
 
Book II. 
 
 7 8 Of Trees; 
 
 With clofe grain’d Chefnuty Wood of ibv’reign Ufe 
 For casking up the Grape’s moft pow’rful Juice. 
 
 i 
 
 « 
 
 Their different Cultures next my Mufe lhall ihow; 
 For as their Kinds their Cultures differ too. 
 
 Since tall are Elms in lively Verdure clad. 
 
 And gracefully their leafy Branches fpread, 
 
 In Rows difpos’d great Beauty will they yield, 
 
 Or bound the utmofl Compafs of your Field; 
 
 For a cool Shade and a fecure Retreat, 
 
 Againfl the fcorching of the Summer’s Heat; 
 
 No Trees fo fit as Elms whether you mind 
 
 With well-wrought Boughs to have your View confin’d . 
 
 Or on large Plains a diflant Walk would ftretch. 
 
 As far as Feet can trace, or Eye can reach-* 
 
 Such Walks at Fount ainb lean may be Purvey’d, 
 
 Of lofty Elms in pleafing green array’d, 
 
 Which endlefs are, with no fixt Limits bound, 
 
 But fill in various Forms the Ipacious Round. 
 
 Sc 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 ?9 
 
 V ' 
 
 So the Corycian happy Swain, who till’d 
 His final! paternal but well order’d Field ; 
 
 Where flow Galefus through Tarentum flows, 
 
 Did Elms with Art in various Forms dilpole : 
 
 Some crofs in Lines and different Plats divide. 
 
 While others bound the Farm on ev’ry Side. 
 
 Each ancient Trunk a fim’lar Race fupplies, 
 
 Beneath their Parents Shade the num’rous Offsprings 
 rile. 
 
 But you mull mete the Ground with equal Care, 
 
 Or each will trelpals on his Neighbour’s Share. 
 
 When wretched Orpheus left the Stygian Coaft, 
 Now hopelefs fince again his Spoufe was loft ; 
 Beneath the preferable Shade he fate 
 Of a tall Elm, and mourn’d his cruel Fate : 
 
 Where Rhodope rears high her fteepy Brow, 
 
 While Heber ' s gentle Current ftrays below ? 
 
8o 
 
 Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 On his fweet Lyre the skilful Arriffc play’d, 
 
 Whofe all commanding Strings the Woods obey'd ; 
 Arid crowding round him form’d an hafty Shade : 
 There Cyprefs , Ilex , Willows , B lanes unite, 
 
 And th’ Elm, ambitious of a greater Height* 
 Prelents before his View a marry 'd Vine, 
 
 Which round her Husband Elm did circling twine. 
 And warm’d him to indulge a fecond Flame, 
 
 But he negledts th’ Advice and Bights the Dame: 
 
 By fatal Coldnefs Bill condemn’d to prove 
 A Victim to the Rage of female Love. 
 
 The mounting Limes will all their Care requite, 
 Who take in ihady Walks a true Delight ; 
 
 While thefe you plant, Thilemon call to mind, 
 
 In Love and Duty with his Baucis join’d, 
 
 A good old Pair whom Poverty had try’d. 
 
 Nor could their Vows and nuptial Faith divide; 
 Their humble Cot with Fweet Content was bleft. 
 And each benighted Stranger was their Gueft : 
 
 When 
 
Book II. 
 
 81 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 When Jove unknown they kindly entertain’d. 
 
 This Boon the holpitable Pair obtain’d, 
 
 Loaden with Years and weak through Length of 
 Time, 
 
 That they fhould each become a verdant Lime$ 
 
 And fince the Transformation Limes appear ; 
 
 Of either Sex, and Male and Female are ; 
 
 Whole Timber for the Turner’s Ufe is good, 
 
 And planted foon appear a copious Wood. 
 
 Not much unlike to Limes the Maple iliows* 
 
 Her Head fo mounts and fo expands her Boughs, 
 
 So Urine her Leaves ; but a rude furrow’d Rind, 
 
 Does the rough Maples Trunk unleemly bind. 
 
 But the tall Bender body’d Tine , whofe Head 
 Is gracefully with ample Branches fpread, 
 
 For Beauty well deferves the higheft Praife* 
 
 Since Verdure evermore her Boughs arrays ; 
 
 q Whilft 
 
82 
 
 Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Whilft her high taper Trunk afpires above 
 All other Trees, and reigns o’er all the Grove. 
 
 Old Cyb'le chang’d her Atys to a Tine , 
 
 Which facred thence to her was held divine. 
 
 And Marjyas vanquifh’d (To the Poets lung) 
 
 Was flead alive and on a Tine-tree hung. 
 
 The foolifh Swain a boxen Pipe had made. 
 
 On which among his fellow Swains he play’d : 
 
 The wooden Inftrument he rudely blew. 
 
 While o’er the Stops his aukward Fingers flew ; 
 
 Yet with his Tunes he pleas’d th’ unskilful Crowd, 
 Whofe unjuft Praifes made the Piper proud : 
 
 He Thcebus felf, th’ harmonious God defy’d. 
 
 And urg’d to have their Skill in Mufick try’d : 
 Thcebus accepts the Challenge, but decreed 
 The Boafter vanquifh’d fhould alive be flead. 
 
 T ine Apples in hard Coats of Mail array’d, 
 
 Are of no Seafons and no Storms afraid; 
 
 And like the Apples too the Trees fecure, 
 
 Black Storms and angry Tempefts can endure, 
 
 Delight 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 83 
 
 Delight in Wind and Mountains, but in Vales 
 Their Shades are weak and all their Vigour fails. . 
 
 The hardy Hazels in all Soils abound* 
 
 Quick-beams and Cornels in a ftony Ground, 
 
 Thele wild in unfrequented For efts rile. 
 
 Contemn rough Storms and Winds and Rain delpile. 
 
 Of watry Race Alders and Willows Ipread, 
 
 O’er fllver Brooks their melancholy Shade, 
 
 Which heretofore (thus Tales have been believ’d) 
 Were two poor Men who by their fifhing, liv’d ; 
 
 Till on a Day when Tales Feaft was held. 
 
 And all the Town with pious Mirth was fill'd* ] 
 
 This impious Pair alone her Rites defpis’d, 
 
 Purfu’d their Care till (lie their Crime chaftis’d. 
 
 While from the Banks they gaz’d upon the Flood* 
 
 The angry Goddefs fix’d them where they flood : 
 Transform’d to Sets and juft Examples made 
 To fuch as flight Devotion for their Trade. 
 
 G 2> 
 
 At 
 
s 4 
 
 Bdok II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 At length well water’d by the bounteous Stream 
 They gain’d a Root, and fpreading Trees became, 
 Yet pale their Leaves as confcious how they fell, 
 Which croaking Frogs with vile Reproaches tell, 
 
 With Firs your rifing Ground and Mountains fill. 
 The lofti’ft Firs adorn the lofti’fb Hill, 
 
 From bury’d Cuttings foon fuch Strength they gain, 
 That daring Winds and Waves they tempt the Main. 
 
 But on fair Levels and a gentle Soil 
 The noble AJh rewards the Planter’s Toil ; 
 
 Noble e’er fince Achilles from her Side 
 
 Took the dire Spear, by which brave HeAor dy’d. 
 
 Whofe Wood refembling much the Hero’s Mind, 
 
 Will fooner break than bend, afiubborn Kind. 
 
 Nor mull the Heliad's Fate in Silence pals, 
 
 Whole Sorrow firft produc’d the Foplar Race ; 
 
 Their 
 
Book II. Of Trees. 8? 
 
 Their Tears, while at a Brother’s Grave they mourn. 
 To golden Drops of fragrant Amber turn; 
 
 Admit this Tree into your artful Grove, 
 
 Deferving well your gen’rous Pains to prove ; 
 
 Tho’ llie the rich Italian Soil efteems, 
 
 And bed will flourifli by her native Streams. 
 
 ; , A T .fi . f/\' " ' ' ',|V 
 
 With all thefe Kinds let your deep Walks be {tor’d> 
 For all thefe Kinds will grateful Shades afford : 
 
 Small is the Task to propagate their Breed, 
 
 Untaught they rife from their own genial Seed. 
 
 Tho’ Groves of Ebony in India grow. 
 
 From rich Arabian Woods fvveet Balfams flow, 
 
 Tho’ fjlken Threads from Boughs the Scythians 
 twine, 
 
 And Phrygian Frankincenfe is held divine ; 
 
 In facred Services alone confum’d, 
 
 And ev’ry Temple’s with the Smoak perfum’d- 
 
u 
 
 Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Yetmofl: the fylvan Race of France I prize, 
 
 Whether they wild on Hills o’erlhadowing rife, 
 
 Or form a reg’lar Grove, where Art with Naturef 
 vies. / 
 
 Let not thzTontickTine-tree'Wood, tho’ fam’d 
 For noble Birth and ancient Race be nam’d, 
 
 Nor that of old by all the learned fought, 
 
 Where the grave Stagyrite his Morals taught, 
 
 Nor Box abounding on Cytorian Hills, 
 
 Nor Groves commanding Fear in Ida's Vales, 
 
 Since Trees, like France no rival Nation Ihows, 
 
 For lofty Heads and wide extended Boughs. 
 
 When Leaves from op’ning Buds in Spring break 
 forth, 
 
 And Maft Trees firft dilplay their verdant Worth, 
 This pefdlential Seafon of the Year 
 Is oft polluted with corrupted Air ; 
 
 From pois’nous Mills thick fvvarms of Locufts rife. 
 With num’rous Armies dark’ning all the Skies, 
 
 Thence 
 
8 / 
 
 Book II. Of Trees. 
 
 Thence on the Trees their greedy Force they pour. 
 And with infatiate Mouths the Leaves devour ; 
 
 And Palmer Worms, dire Monfters void of Shape, 
 
 Will let no greens their rav’nous Jaws efcape ; 
 
 As alio Beetles , whofe black Race defile 
 Young Shoots and all the hopeful Offspring fpoil. 
 
 You to whofe nurfing Care belongs the Grove, 
 
 Berime thefe fatal Ravagers remove, 
 
 Which quickly will deface your Garden’s Pride, 
 
 Unlefs by dafliing Rains in May deilroy’d. 
 
 Be careful too to lop off Boughs decay’d. 
 
 Yet left the Grove you thus deprive of Shade, 
 
 Raile a new Progeny which may with Speed, 
 
 Their old decaying Anceftors fucceed ; 
 
 And Nurs’ries plant in fome commodious Space, 
 Whence Colonies drawn out recruit the fading Race. 
 
 When you for Arbours and for W alks prepare 
 Sweet-jhrubs and Ever -greens defer ve your Care ; 
 
 G 4 The 
 
88 
 
 Book II. 
 
 - Of Trees. 
 
 The Garden moil becoming Charms dilplays. 
 Grac’d with Acanthus T hilly r a and Bays, 
 Sweet-fcented Jeff mines , Myrtles , Citron Trees, 
 Gay Oleanders , and fliorn Cyprejfes. 
 
 The neighb’ring Plain which to the Garden leads, 
 Muft be diftinguilh’d by its proper Shades ; 
 
 Let beauteous Hornbeams one fair Part adorn. 
 Another Cypreffes with Judgment Ihorn : 
 
 Into long Walks are Hornbeams drawn with Eafe, 
 Whofe mazie Windings form aWildernels. 
 
 Along the Alley Sides their Boughs expand, 
 
 Like verdant Walls the firm EJpaliers Hand. 
 
 Twas all their ancient Praife thus wide to fpread, 
 But a nice Order, and an handloine Head 
 New Honours give their various Forms delight. 
 
 And to long private Walks and Bow’rs invite; 
 Embracing dole repel the lcorching Heat, 
 
 And blefs their Mailer with a cool Retreat, 
 
 Tho’ 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Tho’ Cyprefs Branches not uncomely join 
 With mingled Boughs in a continu’d Twine; 
 
 Yet a due Diftance Ihows their Beauty bell. 
 When rang’d in Order, and in Figures dreft ; 
 
 For docil Cy^rejfes, dispos’d with Eafe, 
 
 To take whatever handfome Form you pleale. 
 More fweetly bound a Plain than other Trees. 
 
 O Cypariffus, who with pleafing Grace, 
 Could’ft once all Cean Youths in Charms furpafs, 
 Ceafe now Sylvanus Fury to upbraid. 
 
 Thy Lofs is fully by this Change repaid. 
 
 A lovely Fawn there was, Sylvanus Joy, 
 
 Nor lefs the Fav’rite of the Iportive Boy, 
 
 Which on fofc Grals was in a fecret Shade, 
 Beneath a Tree’s thick Branches cooly laid; 
 
 A luckleft Dart ralh CypariJJus threw. 
 
 And undefignedly the Darling flew ; 
 
Book II. 
 
 pO Of Tr EES. 
 
 ( 
 
 But foon he to his Grief the Error found, 
 Lamenting, when too late the fatal Wound: 
 
 Nor yet Sylvanus fpar’d the guiltlefs Child, 
 
 But theMifchance with bitter Words revil’d: 
 
 This (truck fo deep in his relenting Bread:, 
 
 With Grief, and Shame, and Indignation preft. 
 
 That tir’d of Life he melted down in Tears, 
 
 From whence th’ impregnate Earth a Cyprefs rears ; 
 Enfigns of Sorrow thefe at firlt were born, 
 
 Now their fair Race the rural Scenes adorn. 
 
 Chiefly when with a low and well-trim’d Head, 
 They circling round adorn fome flow’ry Mead, 
 
 Or where fair Avenues to Gardens lead. 
 
 Their tap’ring Cones and high afpiring Creft 
 Still flourifh with immortal Verdure bleft. 
 
 They Winter’s Wrath defpife and rudeft Storms, 
 
 And by the Winds diforder’d fhew new Charms. 
 
 Let 
 
Book II 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 91 
 
 Let Thy Mr a along the Wall be fpread. 
 
 The beaut’ous Ever-green is eas’ly led. 
 
 But Twigs and Tenters for Support will need. 
 She’s Nature’s Tapeftry to line your Walls, 
 Excelling all the Work of princely Halls. 
 
 She graces with delightful green the Fields, 
 
 And to your Garden’s Pride frelh Beauty yields : 
 Permit o’er all the Walls the Boughs to {tray, 
 £nd with diffufive Pomp a lively Scene difplay. 
 
 But who to pleafe more Senfes would provide. 
 He od’rous Shrubs along his Walls muft guide. 
 And Jejfamttf s fweet Boughs with Art unfold. 
 Where Bees laid up their golden Stores of old. 
 On their own Stems they ill fopported fall, 
 Unlefs with Withy fatten’d to the Wall ; 
 
 T hen fixt like Ivy on the Stones they ieize, 
 Profufe of {lender Branches led with Eafe, 
 
 Pliant to take whatever Form you pleafe, 
 
 Through 
 
Book II, 
 
 9 2 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Through fragrant Air refrefhing Scents diflufe. 
 For Ornaments and Sweets of equal Ufe; 
 
 With thefe the beaut’ous Virgin decks her Bread, 
 With thefe by Matrons are the Temples dreft. 
 
 Permit no Want of foreign JeJf amines. 
 
 Not that which in the Spanijh Vallies Urines, 
 
 Nor filver Blooms in Lufitan'ta fought. 
 
 Nor thofe from India o’er the Ocean brought. 
 
 With different Airs the Foreigners appear, 
 
 And Dyes peculiar to their Countrey wear. 
 
 Tho’ gentle Zephyrs wanton in the Air, 
 
 And the returning Spring may promile fair, 
 
 »Tis my Advice to day till Summer comes, 
 
 Nor yet precipitate their hafty Blooms ; 
 
 The fufPring Tiaizy may an Inltance be. 
 
 Of the departing Winter’s Cruelty. 
 
 Boreas will ofc too forward BlolToms kill, 
 
 Take prudent Warning by another’s 111 : 
 
 Lole 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. <?3 
 
 Lofe not your Hopes by the mild Air’s Deceit, 
 
 But Jejfamines referve to feel the kinder Heat. 
 
 1 • ( "" }■ * 
 
 No Trees can more advance the Garden’s Pride, 
 
 Nor grace with Tweeter Shades the Fountain’s Side, 
 Than thole whereon Atlantick Apples grow. 
 
 The Trees in lading Verdure always fhow ; 
 
 And through the Leaves you’ll richer Charms behold. 
 The Flow’rs are Silver and the Apples Gold. 
 
 Who therefore would his Gardens Charms improve,.. 
 With the rich Trealure of a golden Grove, 
 
 4 
 
 Mult for his Trees have Oaken Baskets wove; 
 
 They dill new Robes of Fruit and BlolToms wear. 
 And fading Charms with frelh Supplies repair. 
 
 When the bright Bloom its filver Pomp dilplays. 
 Permit fair Hands the op’ning Sweets to feize : 
 
 Your Wife and Daughters through the Grove may" 
 dray 
 
 Uncheckt, and bear the lovely Spoil away. 
 
 To grace their Brows, and make their Clofets gay. 
 
 For 
 
Book II. 
 
 94 Of Trees. 
 
 For oft the Tree in Blooms its Vigour fpends, 
 
 And Barrennefs on Luxury attends ; 
 
 Their willing Hands this Danger would remove. 
 
 For od’rous Chaplets of the Blooms they love ; 
 
 No Nymph but would with thefe be gladly dreft. 
 And fill with new pluckt Fruit her fnowy Bread; 
 
 The golden Balls for which Atlanta chofe, 
 
 Her promis’d Race, and better Fame to lofe. 
 
 But with no Shades will Gardens rich appear. 
 
 Nor with new fragrant Scents perfume the Air, 
 Unlefs againd the hodile Force prepar d, 
 
 Of Winter’s Cold the golden Fruit you guard; 
 
 Which mud be kept with Walls or Fences warm, 
 Led the rough eadern Winds the Trees fhould harm. 
 To golden Groves that Station’s chiefly kind, 
 
 Which feels the Rage of no tempeduous Wind : 
 
 Nor do they only dread a colder Seat, 
 
 But love the Median and Ajfyrian Heat, r 
 
 Nor can their native kindly Air forget : 
 
 Starv’d 
 
Book II. Of Trees. 
 
 - : .. I . 
 
 Starv’d on cold Strymon ’ s Shore they Icarcely live. 
 But cherilh’d in Hejperian Gardens thrive : 
 
 Then left hard Frofts Ihould the weak Plants deftroy,^ 
 When Boreas , Foe to Beauty, raging high, ( 
 
 Drives Winter on, and ruffles all the Sky; j 
 
 A fafer Green-houfe for your Charge prepare. 
 
 Which from a Storm may beft protect the Fair, 
 
 Till through the wintry Signs the Year has run. 
 Brings back the Zephyrs , and reftores the Sun : 
 
 So will your Garden ftiil with Charms abound. 
 
 With ever breathing Odours ftiil be crown’d. 
 
 Thefe burnilh’d Apples of the golden Kind 
 Shew various Figures in a various Rind; 
 
 Into an oval Form the Citrons roll’d, 
 
 Beneath thick Coats their juicy Pulp unfold : 
 
 From fbme the Palate feels a poignant Smart, 
 
 Which tho’ they wound the Tongue yet heal the 
 Heart, 
 
 In 
 
Book II. 
 
 p6 \ Of Trees; 
 
 In others a mild Netftar is confin’d, 
 
 Such is the Flavour of the Lemon Kind ; 
 
 This gen’rous Offspring fam’d Hetruria boafts t 
 Others adorn the Lufltanian CoAis. 
 
 One charming Stock from old Aurantia came, 
 And keeps its Birth recorded in its Name ; 
 
 Thefe Oranges will all the golden Race, 
 
 In fofteft Rinds and juicy Stores furpafs ; 
 
 Yet difference of Soil whence firft they rofe, 
 This wide Variety of Tafte beftows. 
 
 Search not too far, nor bid the Muie repeat 
 What Grecian Songs of golden Fruit relate; 
 How once in Africk's diftant Climate, where 
 Atlas aloft the bulky Heav’n does bear, 
 
 Their Culture was th’ Heftcrian Sifters Care 5 
 Till with Nemaan Spoils Alcides clad, 
 
 And fierce in Arms this Orchard durft invade, 
 The Guardian Dragon charm’d afteep and flam, 
 He feiz’d the radiant Treafure watch’d in vain; 
 
 Hence 
 
Book II. 
 
 97 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Hence might the Vidor firft with Citrons fill 
 Italian Fields and Aventinus Hill. 
 
 For many Plants yet, which will Ihine among 
 Your ornamental Trep remain uniting ; 
 
 Myrtles and Oleanders claim a Place, 
 
 But chiefly Myrtles of coeleltial Race. 
 
 - 
 
 When once, as Fame reports, the Queen of Love 
 1 In Ida's Valley rais’d a Myrtle Grove, 
 i Young wanton Cupids danc’d a Summer’s Night, 
 Round the fweet Place by Cynthia’s filver Light. 
 Venus this charming Green alone prefers* 
 
 And this of all the verdant Kind, is hers ; 
 
 ; Hence the Bride’s Brow with Myrtle Wreaths is grac’d, 
 
 | When the long Wilh’d for Night is come at laft : 
 
 And JunO) Queen of nuptial Mylteries, 
 
 Makes all her Torches of thefe fragrant Trees. 
 
 Hence in Elyfian Fields are Myrtles laid, 
 
 To favour Lovers with their friendly Shade ; 
 
 H 
 
 There 
 
Book II. 
 
 98 Of Trees. 
 
 There Thtedray Trocris (ancient Poets feign) 
 
 And Eriphyle (till of Love complain, 
 
 Whole unextinguilh’d Flames ev’n after Death re-(^ 
 
 \ 
 
 mam. 
 
 Nor is this all the Honour Myrtles claim ; 
 
 When from the Sabine War Tudertus came, 
 
 He wreath’d his Temples from the Myrtle Grove, 
 Sacred to Triumph as before to Love. 
 
 On a low Trunk the Myrtle lifts her Head, 
 
 Smooth are her Leaves and thick her Branches fpread. 
 Her fragrant Odours are the Nymphs Defire, 
 
 Who much her Sweets and comely Form admire. 
 
 If Cold or Heat rage in an high Degree, 
 
 From too much Heat or Cold preferve her free, \ 
 For both Extremes ailed: the tender Tree: j 
 
 Warm under Sheds lhe’11 be fecur’d with Eafe, 
 
 When Winter’s rough, if planted in a Cafe ; 
 
 Or when Ihe faints with the Sun’s fcorching Beams, 
 May be refrelli’d with cool reviving Streams : 
 
 And 
 
Book II. 
 
 99 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 And if you love the Fair, proted her Boughs, 
 
 Nor let too % the wanton Cartel browze. 
 
 If with your Myrtles and the Citron Race, 
 You here and there an Oleander place ; 
 
 Their mingling Beauties, each to other add. 
 
 Fairer the white appear, and doubly blulh the red. 
 
 I ' v ' ■ ' ’ ‘ *• " ' ' • . ' * *. r : : ■ "• ' 
 
 Near pleafant Fountains and in watry Ground, 
 Are Bays with od’rous Berries joyful found. 
 
 Which deathlefs Greens mod hon’rably furround. 
 Thus richly gifted we may well divine, 
 
 They from no vulgar Stock derive their Line : 
 From Teneus fir ft the lovely Virgin role. 
 
 And Jove her fecond Father might have chole. 
 Had Ihe but deign’d his radiant Son to wed, 
 
 A fuppl’ant God admitting to her Bed. 
 
 He with Tythonian Spoils and Quiver grac’d. 
 
 In thefe, and his own Form Aflurance plac’d, 
 
 H i 
 
 And 
 
IOO 
 
 Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 And happy fhe (for Heav’n was her Reward 
 And the Sun’s Steeds) could lhe his Sjpt regard; 
 
 But whilft an heav’nly Lover lhe difdain’d, 
 
 Her Virgin Vows a nobler Triumph gain’d : 
 
 Apollo's Bounty gave the fpotlefs Maid, 
 
 What Honours now are to her Branches paid ; 
 
 Jove's facred Capitol is crown’d with Bays, 
 
 And echoing Theatres refound her Praife. 
 
 Hail venerable Tree! whofe Branches Ipread 
 Around the Temple’s Gates, a pompous Shade ; 
 Thoudo’ft th’ Events of Fate’s Decrees foretel. 
 
 And all Apollo's Oracles reveal ; 
 
 Sometimes in War thou ’rt pleas’d, and Din of Arms, 
 And thy new Fire the fainting Soldier warms; 
 
 Thee Bhoebus loves the Poets thee defire, 
 
 Thou do’ll their Pains reward, their tuneful Songs in- 
 Ipire. 
 
 Of 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 io i 
 
 Of jhrubby % Race fweet Ter fan Lylach dreft, 
 Not much unlike that Bird, whole flowing Creft, 
 Is by her azure BlolTom well expreft, 
 
 Perfumes the Garden with her early Flow’rs, 
 When the Spring triumphs moll in verdant Stores, 
 
 I need not plead the uncontefted Worth, 
 
 Of what the fair Tomgranate Tree brings forth. 
 Which cloaths her Boughs in a bright Purple Suit, 
 And fills the Garden with ambrofial Fruit ; 
 
 For not one Bloom among the flow’ry Holt, 
 
 Or jbrubby Kind can greater Honours boali 
 A golden Garb her flaming BlolToms wear. 
 
 And interwoven with frelh Leaves appear ; 
 Succeeding Fruit attend the BlolToms Fall, 
 
 Each reprefents a Crown upon a Ball; 
 
 A thoufand Seeds with Tyrian Scarlet dy’d, 
 
 And rang’d by Nature’s Art in Cells they hide, 
 
 H 3 
 
 As 
 
102 - 
 
 Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 As when induftrious Bees with frugal Care, 
 
 A waxen Kingdom for their Stock prepare, 
 
 On Twigs firft lay Foundations for their Combs, 
 Then mark the filming Fabrick into Rooms: 
 
 For ev’ry Seed his Cell and Order holds, 
 
 Whilfl a thick Rind the juicy Fruit infolds; 
 
 Grateful to Tafle their mingled Flavours meet, 
 
 Not rudely fharp, nor yet too lufcious fweet. 
 
 The Story’s fhort how firft this Fruit obtain’d 
 A graceful Crown, and was with Purple ftain’d, 
 
 A Royal Nymph there was of Tyrian Race, 
 
 A Moor indeed, but form’d with ev’ry Grace, 
 
 Her native Colour knew, yet Fate deny’d 
 Indulgence equal to her Beauty’s Pride: 
 
 Fill’d with ambitious Thoughts fhe prefs’d to know, 
 What Gifts the Gods would on her Charms beftow ; 
 Ravifli’d fhe heard th’ ambiguous Prieft declare. 
 
 She fhould a Crown and purple Garments wear ; 
 
 Fancy’d 
 
Book II. 
 
 Of Trees. 103 
 
 Fancy ’d that hence a Kingdom mud arife. 
 
 Deceiv’d by Words and flatting Prophecies, 
 
 For when the God of Wine in Triumph came, 
 Loaden with Indian Spoils to court the Dame, 
 
 He loon beguil’d her with an Husband’s Name. 
 
 Baulk’d of her Hopes, her Virgin Honour ftain’d. 
 
 By Favour of her God at laft Ihe gain’d 
 To be transform’d to this imperial Plant, 
 
 The only Honour \vhich the Prophet meant. 
 
 Nor muft we Taliurus Room deny, 
 
 Tho’ftifF with Thorns, and rugged to the Eye; 
 
 In proper Place ’twill raife the Garden’s Fame, 
 
 With Rhamnus , which the Moderns Whitethorn name* 
 There let the Woodbine mix its fragrant Bufh, 
 
 And the fweet Rajp in fcarlet Berries blufh : 
 
 The Tyracantha will her Place become, 
 
 With Halimus, Shrub-mallows, Butchers-broom. 
 
 H 4 
 
 Others 
 
Book II. 
 
 104 Of Trees. 
 
 Others tho’ fprung of like inferior Race, 
 
 Will take a thoufand Forms, and fhine with various 
 Grace ; 
 
 But Time forbids me through their Kinds to rove, 
 And fiog of Shrubs , which only crowd a Grove. 
 
 Let Ihining Greens reign o’er the Garden wide, 
 And into various Parts the Scene divide, 
 
 With Trees at equal Angles nicely fet. 
 
 Till the fair Walks have in a Centre met. 
 
 Others their Groves in mazy Figures call. 
 
 Where firfl the Greens as in flraight Order plac’d 
 Appear ; yet by Degrees obliquely bend. 
 
 And in a Courle of winding Errors end. 
 
 But whether in right Lines your Walks fhall run. 
 
 Or, gently circling, end where they begun. 
 
 With golden Sand adorn the Ihining Place, 
 
 Or fmooth the Scene with Turfs of pleafing Grafs. 
 
 If more extended Walks run round the Plain, 
 
 Light Chairs, fhould bear in State the female Train ; 
 
 Yet 
 
IOJ 
 
 Book II. Of Trees. 
 
 Yet trading to their Feet, the younger Fair 
 Walk the long Circuit, and defpife the Chair. 
 
 If Thyllereas call a pleading Shade, 
 
 Or Hornbeams form a verdant Palifade, 
 
 Or Pyracanthas into Arches twine 
 Their pliant Twigs, and clofer Walks combine, 
 Often you mud the flowing Branches ihare; 
 
 1 
 
 For Jfhould the Pruner’s Hand be lefs fevere. 
 
 The Beauty of the Walk and Hedge decays. 
 
 If a wild Bough beyond its Limits drays : 
 
 And fince in ev’ry Soil unbidden Grafs 
 Will, fpringing up, ufurp each empty Space, 
 
 The Ground mud be well clear’d from baleful Seeds, 
 Or the rude Path is foon defac’d with Weeds; 
 
 But we’ll commit this to the Gardner’s Hand ; 
 Gardners bed from Experience underdand, 
 
 1 o feed with frefh Supplies the Gardens Stores, 
 
 To plant fair Fruit, and fpread the graceful Flow’rs. 
 
 On 
 
Book II. 
 
 io 6 Of Trees. 
 
 On them induftrious Servants fhould attend, ■ 
 
 And joyful Days in the fweet Labour fpend: 
 
 Some o’er the Walks may conftant Rollers lead. 
 
 Or broken Clods on the new Borders Ipread : 
 
 Some may conduct the Springs, the Chanels clear. 
 To cool the Soil, and thirfty Plants to chear: 
 
 Some may Ihorn Hedges with neat Bands improve,) 
 Bind up the feeble overburthen’d Grove, /• 
 
 And too much Luxury of Shade remove : 
 
 Some cut the Box , fome countermine the Ways 
 Of winding Moles, and level what they raife. 
 
 Some may fow Flow’rs, and make the Beds look gay, 
 And all be bufy in a dift ’rent Way : 
 
 Double their Pains, if weary of the Town, 
 
 The Mailer ihortly is expected down. 
 
 And happy he, who in a countrey Seat, 
 
 From Storms of Bufinefs finds a calm Retreat, '“’l 
 
 Where 
 
107 
 
 Book II. Of Trees. 
 
 Where eas’d of noify Throngs, and looie from Care,^) 
 Exchanging civil Toils for rural Fare, / 
 
 He taftes the native Charms of uninfected Air : J 
 
 Whether in lhady Arbours he may Ihun 
 The fultry fcorching of the mid- day Sun; 
 
 Or him the gentler Ev’ning Rays invite. 
 
 To climb fome lofty Mountains airy Height ; 
 
 Where all around delightful Landskips lie. 
 
 And pleafing Profpecfts entertain the Eye; 
 
 Or early through the Woods may chufe to ftray. 
 When wakeful Birds falute the rifing Day ; 
 
 Or hears from echoing Vallies with Delight, 
 
 The lowing Herd returning Home at Night ; 
 
 Or rather his own Flow’rs and Fountains views. 
 
 And in the Villa feeks his Cares to lofe, 
 
 With namelefs Pleafores charm’d, and endlefs Sweets, 
 He his Efteem for Court and Town forgets. 
 
 For Groves and Rills a larger Blils afford. 
 
 With gentle Slumbers on the grafTy Sward, 
 
 (Pure 
 
Book II. 
 
 108 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 (Pure rural Joys) than Palaces of State, 
 
 Proud with their rich pav’d Porch and lofty Gate, 
 Or painted Roofs, or Arches fretted o’er. 
 
 Or marble Pillars from Morocco's, Shore, 
 
 Or Rooms with Indian Ivory inlaid, 
 
 Cloath’d with rich Arras and in Gold array’d : 
 Such unbought Pleafures human Life fupply’d, 
 When Saturn reign’d in Nature’s early Pride, 
 When the firft Oaks Heav’ns firft Decrees 
 
 veal’d. 
 
 And Men whole Ages lavilh’d in the Field, 
 Yet their own Hills and Springs alone beheld : 
 Nor yet triumphant Rome did proudly rear 
 Her Head, or rich with foreign Spoils appear. 
 But the Tarpeian Rock was bleak and Dare ; 
 Few Cartel o’er the feven Mountains ftray’d. 
 And the Laurentine and Arician Mead, 
 
 Could fcarcely then a Flock of Lambkins feed. 
 
 More 
 
7 
 
 Of Trees. 
 
 Book II. 
 
 io 9 
 
 More Precepts for th’ induftrious Gardner’s Ufe, 
 Might here be publilh’d by the fylvan Mule, 
 
 Did not another Toil unfimg remain. 
 
 And my tir’d Bark, long tofs’d upon the Main, 
 With ardent Longings wilh the Port to gain. 
 
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 Book III. 
 
 Book III. 
 
 Of WA TER. 
 
 E {'porting Waters, which in Fountains rife. 
 Or murm’ring fall with melancholy Noile, 
 Ye Grotts, fmooth Lakes, and pleafing 
 Streams that reign, 
 
 The Garden’s Charms, and grace the lhady Plain, 
 
 Affift 
 
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 GARDENS. 
 

 
 
 
 ■ 
 
 
 
Book III. 
 
 in 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 Aflift your Poet, and his Fancy guide, 
 
 If Springs have Senfe, or Gods o’er Streams prefide. 
 
 Grant me to trace your fecret Veins, and ihovv. 
 From what dark Head perennial Fountains flow; 
 Where wandring Rivers breed, what Source fupplies 
 The watry Stores, and whence at flrft they rife. 
 
 How Aqueducts by Art to Gardens led, 
 
 Are form’d to water, and adorn the Shade ; 
 
 I fing: Ye lab’ring Swains attend thefe Lays, 
 That nought be wanting to the Garden’s Praile : 
 And ye Profefiors of all rural Arts, 
 
 Who chiefly drefs the Villa’s nicefl: Parts, 
 
 Who make the Gardens your peculiar Care, 
 And blooming Beauties for their Pride prepare, 
 Oft to your Flow’rs and Trees frefli Water give. 
 Hence they their Charms and vital Sap derive : 
 
 For who my Precepts hears, the Spring explores. 
 
 And calls 
 
 in wandring 
 
 Rills to feed his Stores ; 
 
111 Of Water. Book III. 
 
 Left parch’d with Heat, the with ring Herbs fhould 
 dye. 
 
 And the lcorch’d Plain a barren Delart lye. 
 
 Nor will your Pains be great, where to the Skies, 
 High craggy Rocks on neighb’ring Mountains rife : 
 For on their Brows the liquid Stores are bred, 
 
 ’Tis there your Swain will find a Fountain’s Head, > 
 And o’er the Plain the willing Current lead. 
 
 View the wide Garonne , rapid Loir , and Seiu, 
 Whofe Stream makes fruitful the Rarifian Plain ; 
 
 The Rhine , Scheldt Rhone , and Danube's mighty 
 Courle, 
 
 How all to Hills, and Mountains owe their Source ; 
 For either in a Void, in Caverns deep. 
 
 Their conftant Refidence their Waters keep. 
 
 Or the cold Cliffs condenle the humid Air, 
 
 And by Degrees a watry Train prepare ; 
 
 From 
 
Book III. Of Water. 113 
 
 From whence with hanging Drops warm Caverns 
 fweat, 
 
 As Marbles are in Rain, and Winter wet. 
 
 From the chill Rocks a dewy Moiilure pours, 
 
 And all Things round weep with the trickling Show’rs ; 
 Or elfe from falling Rains and melting Snows, Y 
 A mighty Store of gath’ring Water grows, f j 
 
 Which finking through the Mountains downward^ 
 flows ; / 
 
 And as new Force from frefli Supplies it gains. 
 
 Breaks forth into the Yales, and rolls along the Plains. 
 
 Some better think, Springs from the Sea arile. 
 
 For Earth furrounded with the Ocean lies, 
 
 Which through her flows, as Blood within our Veins, 
 And a ftrid Commerce with theMafs maintains. 
 Hence no Increafe is made, the Rivers come, 
 
 From ev’ry Part with crowding Billows home : 
 
 For fince Earths inward Parts lefs folid are, 
 
 m ' 
 
 Where hollow Turnings and deep Cells appear, 
 
 I Through 
 
Book III. 
 
 1 14 Of Water. 
 
 Through thefe the Ocean does his Streams convey, 
 Or eats through all th’ oppofing Mould his Way, 
 Through fubterranean Tracks, a gloomy Road 
 He tries to find or forces with his Flood; 
 
 But where Earth’s lhatter’d Bowels do divide, ^ 
 An easy Paflage op’ning deep and wide, ( 
 
 The fwelling Fountain pours its roaring Tide. ^ 
 Yet from the briny Sea frefh Springs proceed, 
 
 Becaufe the Water through deep Caverns led, 
 
 By the grols Mould and Gravel is refin’d, 
 
 And leaves the brackifli Particles behind, 
 
 Cleans’d of all Foulnefs, by this Means flows clean, 
 As if the Water through a Strainer ran. 
 
 Water no proper Tafle or Colour knows, 
 
 But takes whate’er the Mother Earth bellows. 
 
 Hence different Streams their different Natures bear, 
 Some pois’nous kill, while others healing are. 
 
 Thus Borbon , and thus Bugia’s Springs receive 
 Such wholforae Tin&ures as the Soil can give; 
 
 Extra# 
 
Book III. Of Water. nj 
 
 Extra# their med’c’nal Virtues from the Ground, 
 
 And certain Cures for various Ills are found ; 
 
 Such Cures as from no other means are had* 
 
 Nor Heav’n in ought befide affords fuch prefent Aid. 
 
 Your early’ftTask muff be to find a Spring, 
 Which from fome neighb’ring Rock your Care may 
 bring. 
 
 Dig round and fearch the Mountains fteepy Brow, 
 
 Nor fpare what Art and dayly Pains can do. 
 
 If the Ground promiles no good Succels, 
 
 As where dull heavy Sands the Soil opprefs. 
 
 No riling Waters will your Labours blels. 
 
 I’ve feen thofe Men, who for their Garden’s Ufe* 
 
 All Places try’d, whence they might Springs deduce; 
 They importun’d the Deities in vain, 
 
 Nor could their Pray’rs or Pains Supplies obtain. 
 
 I % Thus 
 
Of Water. 
 
 Book III. 
 
 1 1 6 
 
 i 
 
 Thus where their Heads Meudoniau Hills advance. 
 There lately dwelt the wealthy’!! Peer of France , 
 
 An hundred Ploughs could fcarce turn up his Lands ; 
 The King himfelf entrufted in his Hands 
 Not only what his own Demeafues fupply’d. 
 
 But all the Treafures of his Realm befide. 
 
 A (lately Dome he rear’d upon the Mount, 
 
 Where fpacious Plains lay open to the Front; 
 Sweetly the lofty Pile o’er looks the Fields, 
 
 And a proud Profped to the City yields; 
 
 Gardens and Groves adorn the neighb’ring Ground, 
 And with large Views Purvey the Countrey round; 
 But neceflary Springs were wanting dill. 
 
 And the fofc Murm’rings of the Iportive Rill. 
 
 Then in the hollow Bowels of the Earth, 
 
 They fearch to give the hidden Waters Birth; 
 
 The curious Lord no Coft or Labour Ipares, ^ 
 All Artifts and their Inftruments prepares, C 
 
 And only where not found, of Springs dclpairs. ) 
 
 Awake 
 
H7 
 
 Book IIL Of Water. 
 
 Awake, he longs to fee the rifing Streams, 
 
 And fleeping, vainly finds ’em in his Dreams ; 
 
 But tho’ they well examin’d all the Fields, 
 
 Their fruitlefs Toil no Hopes of Water yields : 
 
 So difficult it is a Spring to find, 
 
 Where Nature’s thirfty, and the Soil unkind ; 
 
 But when your Labours meet with wiffi’d Succefs, 
 
 To bount’ous Heav’n your grateful Praife addrels; 
 I’ve oft for you thank’d Heav’n, now your ow 
 Thanks exprefs. 
 
 Tho’ often with a Pump the lab’ring Swain, 
 
 May from an hollow Pit the Water drain, 
 
 And make a Fountain by the Help of Arr, 
 
 Which niggard Nature elfe would ne’er impart : 
 
 In a deep Tube the pliant Engine {lands, 
 
 And the refilling Flood with Force commands ; 
 
 The panting Sucker labours with the Weight, 
 
 And mounts the Streams up to their deftin’d Height ; 
 
 I 3 
 
 Thus 
 
Book III. 
 
 118 Of Water. 
 
 Thus under the new Bridge a grand Machine, 
 Commands the Waters up from out the Sein. 
 
 If Pumps prove ufelels then his Aid implore. 
 
 At whole Commands the Rocks fent forth their wa- 
 try Store. 
 
 But leaft your Water Searcher try in vain, 
 
 (For many by the Earth deceiv’d have been) 
 
 The Tokens of a fecret Spring ITe Ihow, 
 
 Such the cold Ground where Flags and Rulhes grow. 
 Where Graves fink in and frequent Hillocks rife, 
 Where flimy Ooze on the fofr Surface lies.- 
 Thick Weeds and the lharp bulhy Sedge produce 
 Undoubted Tokens of the latent Juice, 
 
 And Mofs, with which the watry Soil’s o’erfpread, 
 And Fleabane blooming in his Oozy Bed : 
 
 Nor with lels Certainty of Springs we guels, 
 
 From Crainsbill, Calamint, and Water Crefe, 
 
 So 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. ii? 
 
 So when from various Quarters of the Hill, 
 
 You’ve drawn together ev’ry wandring Rill, 
 
 Into the neighboring Garden next prepare 
 To bring them down, and fev’ral Ways there are. 
 Sometimes inclos’d in Lead, and harden’d Clay, y 
 Into the Vales you may the Streams convey, > 
 If ealy the Defcent, and iliort the Way. j 
 
 Chiefly if larger Stores the Hills produce, j- 
 And in full Tides lend down the rolling Juice ; 
 
 If from the Hills your Waters rife but flow. 
 
 And to the neighb’ring Vale fupplies you owe. 
 
 Within the Ground a (tony Chanel build, 
 
 Which will with Ram and falling Show’rs be fill’d. 
 Into this Duct the Countrey’s Stores may glide. 
 
 And crouded, pour at lafl a rolling Tide : 
 
 Yet left the running Water chance to pals 
 Through many foul and miry PalTages, 
 
 I 4 
 
 Or 
 
120 
 
 Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 Or from its Mixture with the Earth may get 
 Much Filth, at certain Diflances, ’tis fit. 
 
 Along the watry Courfe you fink a Pit ; 
 
 In whofe deep Bottom all the Mud may flay, 
 Which by an even Stream is born away ; 
 
 Nor can the Slime from thence a PafTage find, 
 Stop’d in its Courfe, and left in Drains behind ; 
 But tho’ your Pits below the Earth defcend. 
 
 Let lofty Grates ail their wide Mouths defend* 
 By which the troubled Waters may be clear’d, 
 And all the Mud that from the Bottom rear’d. 
 Ran in the Chanel, be fupprefl again. 
 
 And fo the Stream flow free from ev’ry Stain, 
 
 Not that I vainly in a private Seat, 
 
 Would purchafe Water at fo dear a Rate, 
 
 As on th ’ Arcolian Aquedudts has been 
 Expended by the Medic aan Queen, 
 
 When flie on Bridges a wide Current laid. 
 
 With mighty Labour to the Town convey’d. 
 
 The 
 
Book III. 
 
 i z i 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 The lofty Work on ftony Arches flood. 
 
 And on its Roof bore the lulpended Flood, 
 
 In Vales fupported by huge Heaps of Mould, 
 
 And in a PalTage cut through Mountains roll’d 
 The Streams, which pent in Walls of Stone abide. 
 Which curbs the Fury of the raging Tide, 
 
 And does the Water through the Town divide. 
 
 But tho’ liich Charge is born for publick Ule, 
 
 By publick Stocks, let private Stocks refule. 
 
 You then, who with a large Eftate are bleft. 
 
 Let no proud Aqueduds your Riches wafle ; 
 
 Great Lordlhips have receiv’d their Ruin hence. 
 
 And Houles been deftroy’d by liich Expence ; 
 
 Obferve the mean, and let your Duds be made, 
 
 Of Alders, harden’d Clay, or lometimes Lead. 
 
 But happy he, who to his Garden may. 
 
 Without the Help of Alder, Lead, or Clay, 
 
 A conftant Current from near Brooks convey. 
 
 Fam’d 
 
122 
 
 Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 Fam’d Beamy thus her watry Store receives, 
 
 From nat’ral Streams which plent’ous Biv'ra gives : 
 So Lianconrt and Borgueil Gardens bleft 
 With Water, near the Loir are happy plac’d. 
 
 Such thou great Tolycrene , whofe Murm’rings raife 
 The Mules Songs, contending in thy Praife, 
 
 Nor lovely Fountain, care, tho’ thou art led. 
 Through an uneven Vale and fordid Bed; 
 
 Tho’ thou through Sancaronian Groves may pafs, 
 And many rough and fteepy Places trace, 
 
 A Courfe unworthy of thy noble Race ; 
 
 Since you Lamoignon pleafe; could Bavil fee 
 Your conflant Streams too, doubly bleft you’d be : 
 In the Lamoignon Gardens you’d remain, 
 
 A leading Goddefs in juft Themis Train. 
 
 That Water’s beft, which without Pipes you drain^ 
 In nat’ral Streams from fome rich River’s Vein; 
 
 No Harm it fuffers from the Lead, which may 
 Burft into Gaps, and let the Water ftray; 
 
 And 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 123 
 
 And dill th’ imprifon’d Juice receives a Stain, 
 
 Which, free by Nature, feeks the open Plain. 
 
 But if you can with no fuch Riv’let meet. 
 
 Near to your Garden fink a fpacious Pit, 
 
 That gath’ring Waters round may fettle there. 
 
 And in vad Concourfe from the Hills repair: 
 
 But fird white Marie in the deep Bottom lay ; 
 
 For Marie will bed the finking Waters day. 
 
 Then how through all the Garden to contrive 
 The Fountains and the Duds, fome Rules I’ll give, 
 The Motions of the Streams to rule I’ll fliow. 
 
 All which the skilful Gard’ ner ought to know ; 
 
 A thoufand Ways the pliant Streams will move. 
 
 And in a thoufand various Figures rove. 
 
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 E* ' V" ; " ^y7 ; f f0\. -yi >.?' frir: ; 
 
 In a near Valley let the Water pent. 
 
 In leaden Pipes be through the Garden fent, 
 
 There 
 
124 ' Of Water. Book III. 
 
 There preft within the narrow Pafs remain. 
 
 That it may higher mount from out the Vein. 
 
 Some brazen Pipes will ule, that Streams may pafs, 
 "With greater Force through the more rigid Brafs, 
 Andfo rife high’r, but left th’ unruly Wind, 
 
 Within the Lead, or ftronger Brafs confin’d, 
 
 Should burft the Pipes and range the hollow Cell, 
 Break, ev’ry Bond, and make the Water fwell ; 
 
 You breathing Holes along the Pipes fhould bore, 
 And thence the Wind to open Air reftore. 
 
 As when new tunn’d Falernian Wines ferment, 
 
 The Cooper ftraight gives foaming Bacchus Vent, 
 Left in his Heat he force the Cask to fly, 
 
 And burfting through, unloofen ev’ry Tye. 
 
 "•[ I . [■ *'ij 
 
 That Streams, colle&ed thus from ev’ry Side, 
 
 You through the Garden rightly may divide, 
 
 Firft in the middle of the Garden lay 
 A fpacious Fountain, where the Waters may 
 
 Roll 
 
Book III. Of Water. 12 j 
 
 1 v 
 
 Roll in, and through a narrow Tunnel rife, 
 
 y . ’ A V r-J 
 
 In {pouting Streams and dalli the Winds and Skies. 
 The Fountains Bottom and the Brim enclofe. 
 
 With polilh’d Marble or foft Turfs of Mois ; 
 
 Inftead of Tubes fome Men their Fountains grace, -y 
 With Sea-calves or with Scyllas dubious Race, V 
 Or with wild Tritons call in molten Brals. J 
 
 Thus a proud T riton on a Dolphin rides 
 At Luxeuburgh., and lpouting Wafers guides; 
 
 This Fountain is with Marble beautify cl. 
 
 And from Ar cue'll with Water well fupply’d : 
 
 Yet at St. Clou the Fountain more commands 
 
 Our Praife, where the fam’d Seat of 'Philip Hands, 
 
 \ 
 
 Proud with its noble Groves and murm’ring Springs, 
 And boafts its felf the Royal Seat of Kings ; 
 
 Firft in the King’s and People’s juft Efteem, 
 
 And Hands a Pattern for your {pouting Stream; 
 
 With this no Fountain can in France compare. 
 
 To flow, or mount aloft in open Air ; 
 
 
 la 
 
Book III. 
 
 12 6 Of Water. 
 
 In a fquare Pond the Conduit op’ning pours 
 Its Waters, whence in crowding Waves it roars: 
 With rapid Force the fpouting Streams arife, 
 
 And like a Shaft fly whirling to the Skies, 
 
 Then falling downward with a falling Daih, 
 
 The Fountains circling brim, with rainy Show’rs they 
 wafh. 
 
 i 
 
 Of thefe Jet d'eaux th’ original I’ll fing, 
 
 If from Antiquity we Truth can bring 
 
 When great Alcides with a chofen Band, 
 
 Of Grecian Youths fail’d to the Colchian Land, 
 
 And little Hylas too, his fav’rite Boy, 
 
 Oblig’d the Hero with his Company. 
 
 It chanc’d that as they paft the beechen Wood, 
 
 Near which the fam’d Arcanum Fountain flow’d, 
 
 In the Bithynian Plain, to Land they bore, 
 
 And the tir’d Minya gain’d the pleafing Shore ; 
 
 The 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 117 » 
 
 The Chiefs compos’d their weary’d Limbs to reft. 
 
 But Hylas fought the Springs, by Third oppred ; ' 
 
 At lad a Fountain found, his Neck he eas’d, 
 
 And on the Bank himfelf and Pitcher plac’d. 
 
 ’Twas at a Time when old Afcanins made 
 An Entertainment in his watry Bed ; 
 
 For all the Nymphs and all the Naides , 
 
 Inhabitants of neighb’ring Plains and Seas : 
 
 To the high Fead with th tlnachian Dame, 
 
 Fair IJis, Ephyra-, Melanina came. 
 
 Him JJL r fird of all the Nymphs elpies. 
 
 Admires his charming Face, andfparkling Eyes, 
 Carelefs he fate, while hie t’ enfnare him drove, 
 
 He$ eager Hopes preluming of his Love, 
 
 Then dooping down to reach the deeper Flood, 
 
 He fell from off the Margin where he dood : 
 
 Whether born downward by the Pitcher’s Weight, 
 
 Or the moid dipp’ry Bank deceiv’d his Feet, 
 
 The ready Nymph draight caught the falling Boy, 
 
 Nor from her cialping Arms would iole her Joy. 
 
 But 
 
Of Water. Book III* 
 
 But he the Nymph and clofing Waves witbftood, 
 And vainly drove with the furrounding Flood ; 
 
 Her fellow Nymphs the dubborn Youth entreat, 
 
 T’ accept in old Afcanius' Cell a Seat : 
 
 He dill refufing, and with druggling faint. 
 
 His weary Limbs their native Vigour want, 
 
 A Fountain, and a Fountain’s God became: 
 
 The injur’d Nymph then to revenge her Shame, 
 
 An haughty Temper and proud Mind fupplies, 
 Againd the Nature of a Stream to rife ; 
 
 Panting he upward drives to rife in vain, 
 
 With redlels Motion, but falls back again. 
 
 For him Alcides fought the Countrey round, 
 
 Th ’ Afcanian Banks and neighb’ring Hills refoun^ 
 With Hylas , Hylas , ev’ry Rock does call. 
 
 And ev’ry Wood, and ev’ry founding Vale. 
 
 But all in vain ; for now transform’d he gave, 
 
 The fird Beginning to the ipouting Wave, 
 
 While cruel he does IJis Love defpife. 
 
 And lab’ring to get free the very Fountain flies. 
 
 Hence 
 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 12 ? 
 
 Hence were Delights fromfpouting Waters fought* 
 And Streams to (port in Groves and Gardens taught; 
 Laborious Art a Multitude of Ways, 
 
 And Forms contriv’d, through which a Fountain plays* 
 Thefo all at Rue l entertain our View, 
 
 And Signs remain what Rich lieu once could do. 
 
 Who when fox Lewis he the Nations Weight 
 Suftain’d, and by his C'ounfols rul’d the State, 
 
 Did Wealth immenfo on Water-works confume. 
 
 Which of his Pow’r are Monuments become. 
 
 Here divers Ways dilpos’d you’ll Fountains foe, 
 
 Made more delighful with Variety ; 
 
 Whofo Streams firft headlong fall, then mount above. 
 And in all Motions and all Figures move, 
 j Here a Chimera opens wide her Jaws, 
 
 And from her gaping Mouth a Torrent throws; 
 
 In her wide Throat the crowding Waters rifo. 
 
 And foaming ilTue forth with horrid Noifo. 
 
 K 
 
 There 
 
Book III. 
 
 130 Of Water. 
 
 There from a Dragon whirling round in Hafte, 
 
 On the Spe< 5 tators gulhing Streams are caft; 
 
 Then with his Arms and watching of his Game, 
 
 A brazen Huntfman Hands and rakes his Aim, C 
 To kill the Prey, but ihoots an harmlefs Stream ; j 
 A pleafing Cheat, at which the wondring Rout, 
 
 At once with Laughter and Applaufes Ihout. 
 
 Why fliould I tell how Waters in a Grott , 
 
 By Art Variety of Sports are taught, 
 
 When all the Place grows moifl: with Rain that falls. 
 In artificial Show’rs from dripping Walls ; 
 
 The Springs boil up o’erflowing all the Ground, ^ 
 The leaping Waters on all Sides rebound, ^ 
 
 And with large Drops the Stones be-fprinkle round.^ 
 The docil Streams will readily obey 
 The Mailer’s Hand, and as he pleafes play ; 
 
 Tho’ wanton Na'ids of thole Grotts approve, 
 
 Where they through Pebbles can more freely move. 
 
 If 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. iji 
 
 If eaftern Gems and Erythraan Shells 
 Adorn their mo fly Dens and vvatry Cells. 
 
 Some Artifls will their Grotts , with Fountains fill’d^ 
 Of Pumice eafy to be hollow'd build* 
 
 The fplendid Roof with Ihining Shelwork grace, 
 
 And beautifie with Statues all the Place. 
 
 Thele little Arts, tho’ into Falhion grown, 
 
 Were to our wifer Anceftors unknown. 
 
 Let others then provide iiich Sports as thefe* 
 
 In Hopes a while the gaping Mob to pleafe. 
 
 But you, in things more ferious fliould employ 
 Your Time, as how vaft Waters to enjoy; 
 
 As to the falling Streams what Poile to give* 
 
 And in a deep Canal the Tide receive* 
 
 Which may a River flow* or Handing make* 
 
 Colle&ed in one Pond, a filent Lake. 
 
 If that your Pipe be wide enough, prepare 
 To fill irup and fend the Waters far, 
 
Book III. 
 
 131 0 / Water. 
 
 For in all Fountains Store of Waters pleafe. 
 
 And Plenty of itfelf is here a Grace. 
 
 If Fancies pleafe in diff’rent Forms you may 
 Contrive to let your Ipouting Waters play. 
 
 Some Spouts will reprelent a Show’r of Rain, 
 Others the Rays of Light and Sun-beams feign. 
 Some a fwift Arrow from a founding Bow, 
 
 Whiifl: others in a narrow Circle Ihovv 
 Carybdis Gulph, in which the Water roars, 
 
 As from the Pals in rapid Hafte it pours ; 
 
 And by the Ferment of the headlong Streams, 
 The Fountain like a boiling Caldron feems. 
 
 From your chief Magazine the Waters may, 
 
 In murm’ring Riv’lets o’er your Meadows ftray ; 
 But left by wandring they lhould chance to wafte. 
 Collect the Rills in a large Pond at laft. 
 
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 How 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 *33 
 
 . . , - 
 
 How to conduct: the Streams I’ll now rehearfe. 
 And at what Diftances the Rills difperle ; 
 
 Tho’ unconfin’d the Water loves to ftray, 
 
 And free by Nature cares not to obey ; 
 
 Yet will the Riv’lets to your Guidance yield, 
 
 And be with Care condu&ed through the Field : 
 Submit to Art, their ancient Way decline. 
 
 And take the Path your Fancy fhall afiign ; 
 
 For oft Meanders fliould their Courfe reftrain, 
 With frequent Windings o’er the open Plain. 
 
 Thus o’er the Fields fad Amymone rov’d, 
 When once file heard file was by Neptune lov’d; 
 Th’ unhappy Nymph afraid of evil Fame, 
 
 Flies in her Courfe and follows in the fame ; 
 
 As yet perhaps file had not underftood 
 Herfelf was chang’d by Neptune to a Flood, 
 
 K 3 
 
 Which 
 
Book III. 
 
 134 Of W AT ER. 
 
 Which flies and follows hill itfelf in vain, 
 
 And in long Circuits draws its winding Train, 
 
 Filling with Wandrings the c Dcrcaan Plain. 
 
 The fleeting Streams a thoufand Ways fliou’d move. 
 And to all Quarters in their Chanels rove, 
 
 Some down a craggy Steep, as the fwoln Brooks, 
 
 By Rains increas’d, fall roaring from the Rocks ; 
 Some o’er th’ uneven Ground creep here and there, 
 Lab’ring for PafTage, flopping ev’ry where; 
 
 Through the low Vale the murm’ring Brook does flray, 
 Scornfully forcing all along its Way, 
 
 Swells in its Courfe and angry feems to rave, 
 
 Lafhing the Pebbles with its harmlefs Wave ; 
 
 Now the high Banks with Threat’niugs vainly chides. 
 And Trees be-fprinkles with its foaming Tides ; 
 Which tho’ at firft a little purling Stream, 
 
 Crept through the Grafs fcarce worthy of a Name. 
 When from the neighb’ring Vale it gains fupplies. 
 Dares a flrong Torrent and high River rife ; 
 
 Arch’d 
 
r 
 
 Book III. Of Water. 13 5 
 
 Arch’d Bridges bears built o’er its wid’ning Tide, 
 
 And fees large Veffels in its Chanel ride. 
 
 Another will with fportful W aters pafs, 
 
 O’er the green Mofs, or through the tender Grafs, 
 While roaring Brooks beneath the Forefts ftray. 
 
 And with hoarfe Murm’rings chide th’ uneven Way ; 
 The pliant Stream, which flows as you command, } 
 May wafh the Meadows or manure the Land, > 
 And fpread with pregnant Slime the barren Sand. ' 
 When it o’erflows, you lhould with Dams reftrain 
 The Flood, and carefully the Banks maintain. 
 
 In fhow’ry Spring, when Fountain-Streams abound. 
 And all the Vales with flooding Rains are drown’d. 
 With Mounds of Earth defend each Grove and Mead, 
 Left a foul Stain the fertile Plains o’erfpread. 
 
 And as your Rills in various Forms lhould glide. 
 
 So various Ornaments for Banks provide; 
 
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 Let 
 
n 6 of w ATER. Book III. 
 
 Let fome withMofs, withFlow’rs let Tome be dcckr. 
 And others let a Wall of Stone protect, 
 
 Let muddy Pools be veil’d with their own Reed, 
 
 Or Flags, where croaking Frogs and Morehens breed 
 If the clear Stream a Tandy Bottom fhews, ) 
 
 With Grafs adorn the Banks, and let long Rows /■ 
 Of verdant Elms o’erfiiade it as it flows. ) 
 
 But when your Rills a downhill Courfe receive. 
 
 Let the fleep Way an eafy PafTage give, 
 
 And from th’ impending Banks no Rubbifh fall, 
 
 To flop the Streams thus haft’ning to the Vale. 
 
 Let Fountains here and there and rolling Floods, 
 With various Murm ’rings echo from the Woods, 
 
 Their lacied Silence break, flow ev’ry W r av, 
 
 And into dying Trees new Life and Strength convey. 
 
 Wnile Streams retard your Steps, and pleafe your 
 Sight, 
 
 And fill your fruitful Fancy with Delight, 
 
 Perhaps 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. 137 
 
 Perhaps you’ll think how mortal Years decay, 
 
 * 
 
 How quickly Life’s fwift Current fteals away. 
 
 (The rolling Minute like the gliding Wave) 
 
 Nor all your Care preferves you from the Grave. 
 Perhaps you’ll ponder on the Turns of Fate, 
 
 What boift’rous Storms and Waves on Mortals wait. 
 Perhaps you’ll fay while you the Streams behold, ' 
 Thus < Teneus , and thus Simois flow’d of old, 
 
 % I 
 
 Thus Amafenus , thus ’Dyrafpes roll’d, 
 
 Thus Hypanis , thus with a gentle Courfe 
 Meldnthus ran, c Parthenim with Force; 
 
 Th t Ache Lot an and Inachian Stream, 
 
 All which were Rivers once in high Efleem. 
 
 Waters take difPrent Forms and pleafe in all. 
 
 But mofl when from a Precipice they fall. 
 
 In rolling Cataradbs, like thofe which flow 
 From Alpine Rocks, and fnna's craggy Brow, 
 
 Or where America its Coaft extends. 
 
 Northward, and with eternal Storms contends. 
 
 Beyond 
 
Book III. 
 
 138 Of Water. 
 
 Beyond the Ocean on Canadian Shore, 
 
 Vail: Rivers from the lofty Mountains roar 
 With dreadful Noife, the Vales and Pine-tree Woods 
 Groan with the Uproar of the falling Floods. 
 
 Copying from thefe, Ruellian Na'ids play’d 
 Their rolling Waters from an high Cafcade, 
 
 A mighty Work, which in the Garden (land?, 
 
 And the Beholders Eyes and Hearts commands ; 
 
 A tow’ring Rock afpiring to the Skies, 
 
 Tumbles the Waters down its Precipice; 
 
 Broken on frequent Steps the flowing Tide 
 Foams up, and throws the dafhing Surges wide, 
 They found as when a boundlefs Torrent breaks 
 From an high Mount, the Earth beneath it (hakes ; 
 O’er Flints and Stones the rolling Billows bound, 
 The Woods and Hills the dreadful Noife refound. 
 
 Thus Grecian Sappho turn’d into a Stream , 
 
 ( As Toets fing ) a JV aterfal became ; 
 
 Her 
 
Book III. Of Water. 139 
 
 Her flying Phaon o'er tti Ambracian Tlain y 
 With weary Steps the Nymph purju'd in vain ; 
 
 At lafl on Leucas airy Top Jhe flood \ 
 
 And took a Trofpett o'er th' adjacent Flood ; 
 
 The Lesbian Nymphs advis'd the mournful Hame , 
 
 In the deep Sea to quench her raging Flame ; 
 
 Apollo Guardian of the facredBlace , 
 
 Beheld and pity'd the fam'd Boetefs. 
 
 And as jhe from the Rock to leap a(fay'd y j 
 
 Tho' unimplor'd he hajien'd to her Aid , > 
 
 And to a Stream transform'd the falling Maid, j 
 The Waves roll headlong down the Steep x and prove 
 
 A mournful Emblem of defpairing Love. 
 
 ( _ 
 
 I 
 
 If on an even Plain your Garden lies, 
 
 Where no alpiring Hills and Rocks arife, 
 
 Thenfpread your Waters wide, and let them all. 
 
 At once down eafy Verges gently fall. 
 
 At Lyancourt x thus where the Gardens end, 
 
 Down grafTy Banks the gliding Streams defeend. 
 
 Like 
 
Book nr. 
 
 140 Of Water. 
 
 Like this fometimes au even Fountain flows, 
 
 But juft declines, and widens as it goes. 
 
 Does like unfolded Linen Cloth appear, 
 
 Or flying Sails expanded in the Air ; 
 
 With fhallow Streams whole Sheets of Water glide. 
 Extend themfelves and fpread their Current wide. 
 
 But Falls and {porting Waters never chufe, 
 
 Where long wide Ponds their watry Stores difFufe, 
 Whofe large capacious Bed will ever yield 
 Supplies, for Rills to water all the Field ; 
 
 Let thefe form frequent Ponds then flow again ; 
 You may befides thefe Ponds a mighty Drain 
 In the low Grounds prepare, and thither may 
 
 The Streams at laft from ev’ry Part convey. 
 
 ) 
 
 Fountains and little Brooks pleafe not fo well, 
 
 As when vaft Waters like wide Seas do fwell; 
 
 Then iffquare Ponds and long Canals you frame, 
 Sink a large Chanel equal to the Stream, 
 
 Or 
 
Book III. Of Water. 141 
 
 Or Marfh, from whence your watry Stores are drain’d. 
 And let a ftony Wharf the Sides defend, 
 
 Built and cemented well ; for oft I’ve known, 
 
 The mould ’ring Cement and the falling Stone, C 
 Sink into Ruins, and the Water gone : j 
 
 Within ftrong Banks then all your Ponds contain. 
 And let firm Walls the raging Flood reftrain. 
 
 Thefe empty Lakes the Springs at Pleafure will 
 From ev’ry Corner of the Garden fill: 
 
 An hundred Streams flowing incefTantly, 
 
 ' The Bed will furnifh with a large Supply. 
 
 I’ve oft feen thofe who from the falling Rains, 
 
 And Streams, by chance colle&ed on the Plains, 
 Have fill’d their Ponds, and kept a watry Store, 
 
 In a large Laver’s artificial Shore. 
 
 Thus the Bavillean Pond, fo fam’d, increas’d, 
 
 In equal Fortune with its Matter blefs’d, 
 
 The 
 
Book III. 
 
 141 Of Water. 
 
 The languid Rill through Ruines crept before, 
 
 Unlels by chance fvvoln with a fudden Show’r, 
 Among the Rubbiih of the Villa ftray’d, 
 
 A muddy Brook and by no Fountain fed ; 
 
 Hither St. Crones and Baville Cattel came* 
 
 And water’d in the middle of the Stream ; 
 
 With eafy Step I once could leap acrofs, 
 
 But when its Lord to mighty Honour role, 
 
 To no lefs Fame the happy Villa grows. 
 
 The Water in a Marfh that Hood of late, 
 
 Tho’ fmall at firft, yet born to better Fate, 
 
 Now from vile Rudies freed becomes a Pond, 
 
 Where Shoals of Fiih and liquid Stores abound* 
 
 Thus Hill increafing the proud Waters fvvell, 
 
 And boall the Grandeur of a large Canal. 
 
 Here oft the mighty Minifters of State, 
 
 With the great Mailers of the Gown, retreat. 
 
 And while the Murm’rings of the Streams they hear. 
 Forget the Hurry of the Court and Bar. 
 
 F®r 
 
Book III* 
 
 Of Water. 143 
 
 For from a Spout arifing from the Pond, 
 
 The falling Streams through all the Garden found. 
 
 Lakes of whatever Shape great Pleafure give, 
 
 (Tho Gardens bed the circling Form receive) 
 
 If Trees too with their Aiming Scenes lhall crown,-) 
 The verdant Banks, and bend their Branches down,C 
 O’er Beds of Graft, or Seats of pureft Stone. \ 
 
 Whether your Waters ftagnant are, or move 
 With flowing Tide, adorn them with a Grove. 
 
 Whofe twining Boughs on ev’ry Side may lean. 
 
 With Shade and Coolnels to refrelh the Scene : 
 
 ’T wixt Groves and Fountains mutual Friendlhip’s made, 
 The murm’ring Stream Hill courts the cooling Shade. 
 But hence be fore to drive the croaking Race, 
 
 Nor let their tedious Brawls offend the Place, 
 
 The noxious Rout will raife the fordid Mud, 
 
 And with their Sports difturb the cryllal Flood. 
 
 On 
 
Book III. 
 
 144 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 On the clear Stream let Swans difplay their Pride, n a 
 L et painted Wherries o’er the Surface ride, s. 
 
 And num’rous Oarsfweep through the yielding Tide. ) 
 But ah ! bright Dames, truft not the faithlefs Shores 
 Cruel are Waves, and falfe the watry Pow’rs; 
 Alcyone's and Annas Deaths declare. 
 
 With hundreds more, how fatal Waters are: 
 
 Adore the River Gods that no fuch End, T 
 
 Your heedlefs Swains while lab’ring may attend. 
 But all Misfortunes on your Foes defcend. 
 
 But to return, if a Canal you’d gain, 
 
 Long and diffus’d into a iiquid Plain, 
 
 From ev’ry Quarter the collected Stores 
 Mud flow, and fwelling fill th’ extended Shores, 
 Proudly afpiring to the topmoft Brim, 
 
 In even Banks an equal flowing Stream. 
 
 For after all our Art no Waters ihow 
 So grand, and on the Fields fuch Grace beftow* 
 
 As 
 
Book III. 
 
 Of Water. i4j 
 
 As a large River rolling with full Tide, 
 
 That bounds the VilT in View from ev’ry Side, 
 Extends itfelf of its own Limits proud, 
 
 And roaring flows along a noble Flood. 
 
 ‘Twere endlefs Rules to multiply and drive, 
 
 ' In tedious Verfe Particulars to give ; 
 
 If more you’d learn unto thofe Vales repair. 
 
 Once happy in their wealthy Mailer’s Care ; 
 
 There you may view the various Fountains made. 
 With Streams beneath the Earth in Pipes convey’d. 
 Into what diff’rent Forms by Art they’re born ; 
 
 Some open Fountains are, fome Grotts adorn. 
 
 Great Lyancourt our juft Attendance claims. 
 
 Fam’d for its grafly Banks, and limpid Streams. 
 
 View S comber g too, whole winding Current drains,. 
 By various Turnings, all the neighb’ring Plains, ( 
 Weds all the Fields, and o’er the Meadows reigns. ) 
 Chiefly let all admire thy pompous Show, 
 
 Thou beaut’ous Nats of fair Fount amble an , 
 
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 Thou 
 
Book III. 
 
 146 Of Water. 
 
 Thou honour’d by great Lewis like a Queen, 
 
 Do'll o’er the Waters of the Nation rebn; 
 
 Nor does a Nymph through all the Kingdom dare. 
 With thee majeftic Honours to compare: 
 
 Great as thy Mailer in thy mighty Sway, 
 
 Thee the French Fountains, Lakes, and Streams obey : 
 The Ipacious Sein with Shores extended wide, 
 
 Which enters Taris in exulting Pride, 
 
 The rapid Loir with th ' Allier join’d in one, 
 
 And foreign Rivers too thy Empire own: 
 
 The Tiber mud to thee the Sway refign. 
 
 And Greece fubmit her Waves and Streams to thine. 
 Hail happy Nymph, fuch among Streams thy Fame, 
 As among Nations is fair Gallia's, Name : 
 
 Here having finilh’d War and fettled Peace, 
 
 Great Lewis has advanc’d a great Encreafe 
 Of watry Stores ; new Catara&s abound 
 From lofty Rocks, and grace the Garden round. 
 Immenfe the Labour of all thefe to tell. 
 
 The llately Fountains and the grand Canal, 
 
 That 
 
Book III. Of Water. 
 
 # 
 
 147 
 
 That flows along in a majeftic Stream, 
 
 And doth the Courfe of fome large River feein ; 
 How oft has been determin’d here the Fate 
 Of Nations, while their Miniflers of State, 
 
 In Crowds the Juftice of our Sov’reign wait ; 
 
 To whom contending Kings refer their Cafe, 
 Sue, or for Aid, or tir’d with Arms for Peace. 
 
 But Time will not allow my Mufe to fhow. 
 
 The liquid Treafures of fair Fount ainbleau. 
 
 What new Improvements Lewis has defigtfd, 
 
 T’ exprefs the noble Greatnefs of his Mind ; 
 
 Nor can fhe praife thee right, thou Royal Dome, 
 Whofe Glories from the Kings thy Founders come, 
 Or fing thy Garden’s fair luxuriant Bloom. 
 
 Nor had fhe Pow’r the mighty Work to trace. 
 None would at this glad Time attend her Lays. 
 
 See with what Joy th’ exulting Palace rings, 
 
 While by her awful Art Lucina brings 
 
Book III. 
 
 148 
 
 Of Water. 
 
 A Dauphine, whole high Birth Mankind adore. 
 And gratefully applaud the happy Hour 
 That gives fure Omens of a lading Peace, 
 
 And blefTes all the joyful World with Eafe. 
 
 While thus the Guardian Nats of the Place, 
 Sings the fair Infant and his Father’s Praife, 
 Who o’er his People in full Quiet reigns, 
 
 I haften to enrich the Countrey Swains, 
 
 With rural Treafures and inltrudt their Care, 
 
 In likely Arts to make the Orchard bear. 
 
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OF 
 
 GARDENS. 
 
 Q> & * <& & <& & 
 
 Book IV. 
 
 The ORCHARD. 
 
 U Nfinifli’d were the Work, ungrateful I, 
 
 Should’ft thou, ' Pomona , unregarded lye ; 
 Thou crown’d: the various Seafons of the''. 
 Y ear, ( 
 
 Without thee Summer would but Spring appear, f 
 
 And Autumn none but verdant Honours wear. ) 
 
 L 3 Thefe 
 
The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 150 
 
 Thefe our laft Cares, Lamoignon beg your View, 
 On thefe would you one fav’ring Smile beftow, 
 
 Then our light Bark might venture all her Sails, 
 
 And ride her Voyage out with profp’rous Gales. 
 
 For tho’ ftri<ft Juftice by your Pow’r maintains. 
 
 Her facred Rule and daring Vice reftrains; 
 
 Yet have we feen you Laws for planting give. 
 
 And Orchards manag’d by your Precepts thrive ; 
 
 All Kinds of Trees, all Cultures you explain, 
 
 And lend your Wifdom to inftrud the Swain; 
 
 For fuch an Honour may the rural Pow’rs 
 Your Orchard blefs, and multiply its Stores, 
 
 Till with their Weight your Fruit the Boughs opprefs. 
 Not able to fuftain the vaft Increafe : 
 
 May the Bavillean Barns o’ercharg’d with Grain, 
 
 Of too much Plenty, with loud Cracks complain; 
 And may your Villa dreft in Charms appear. 
 
 And with fucceBive Beauties grace the Year. 
 
 Tho* 
 
Book VI. The Orchard. iji 
 
 Tho’ ’ti$ ordain’d by Nature’s hard Decree, 
 
 All Countries fhall not with all Plants agree ; 
 
 Yet fruitful France exempt from all Reftraint, 
 Admits all Culture, and rejects no Plant, 
 
 Tho’ Burgundy the fparkling Juice refines, 
 
 And chiefly boafts her Mountains clad with Vines ; 
 Tho’ faireft Apples Normandy adorn, 
 
 Bigorre be fam’d for Metals, Beaujfe for Corn; 
 Tho’ lofty Trees {hade all the Berman Fields, 
 
 And Troyes her Grapes in largefl: Clufters yields ; 
 Tho’ num’rous Herds of Cattel Bourdeaux feeds, 
 And Auvergne tames the beft and fwifteft Steeds: 
 Yet in all France the happy Soil will fuir, 
 
 Either with golden Corn or purple Fruit. 
 
 Chiefly where nigh well water’d Tours is leen 
 Perpetual Spring, and Meadows always green ; 
 
 The Lands through which flow Sloan Icarce moving 
 glides. 
 
 Or ’Durance wafhes with its headlong Tides ; 
 
 L 4 
 
 Where 
 
The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Where the Garonne o’erflows the humbler Grounds, 
 Or where imperial 'Paris ftretches wide her Bounds. 
 
 If yet unfixt you can your Soil command, ~) 
 Always prefer for Fruit the richeft Land, > 
 
 Avoiding gravelly and meagre Sand ; j 
 
 Or where between two Hills a Valley lies, 
 
 Whence lazy Fogs and noifom Vapours rile; 
 
 Left your crude Fruit a brackilh Savour take. 
 
 From Steams alcending from a Handing Lake. 
 
 Shun Hills too high as well as Vales too low. 
 Expos’d to Cold, where conftant South Winds blow. 
 That Situation is by all agreed, 
 
 The beft to raife the vegetable Breed, 
 
 Where to the Breezes of a gentle Sky, 
 
 Declining Fields with open Bofom lie. 
 
 Yet this warm Field invitingly declin’d. 
 
 Verg’d to the Sun, and to a temp’rate Wind. 
 
 To 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. x 5 3 
 
 To the Parterre muft juft Proportion bear. 
 
 And lie contiguous, that they may appear 
 Both in one View; but theDivifion bound 
 With Palifades of Ir’n, to fence the Ground, 
 
 That Beafts or ruder Men mayn’t leap the Mound. 
 
 Tedious would be the Mufe with needlefs Care, 
 Should ihe the Ways of chufihg Soils declare; 
 
 Their various Qualities and Habits fliow, 
 
 How beft to plant, and when the Time to fow, 
 
 ij 
 
 Arts which no Peafants but already know. 
 
 | ^ 
 
 But fhould you by ill Fortune be confin’d, 
 
 Where the poor Soil is to your Trees unkind: 
 
 Open the Ground, and clear the Mould away. 
 
 And in the vacant Bed a better Compoft lay. 
 
 1 
 
 Thofe Soils are beft which Sand relemble moft, 
 Suppofe their Colour good, their Moifture juft; 
 Neither too dry, nor yet too full of Juice, 
 
 Which curs’d with Plenty baleful Weeds produce. 
 
 But 
 
1 54 The Orchard. Book IV* 
 
 But e’er you plant the Ground ’tis good to know, 
 Whether the chofen Fruit will likely grow ; 
 
 Whether the Place with gen’rous Vines agrees. 
 
 Or rather Teems inclin’d to favour Trees ; 
 
 Force will your Hopes deceive; for vain’s the Toil, 
 
 To druggie with the Bent of an unwilling Soil. 
 
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 When the kind Field is for your Purpofe laid, 
 
 The Glebe broke up for planting fitly fpread. 
 
 At fird the Scene into jud Portions fquare. 
 
 And for each Plant afilgn an equal Share ; 
 
 Then from the choiced Quince you can command, 
 Pluck off a Sucker with a gentle Hand ; 
 
 Which warm into the new broke Earth convey, 
 When all its ufelefs Wood is par’d away. 
 
 Scorn not the dirty Moulds your Hands fhould dain, 
 In op’ning Beds or clofing them again : 
 
 Nor will the Man who thus bedows his Care, 
 
 From Mother Stocks the fhooting Breed to bear. 
 
 And 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 *55 
 
 And in warm Moulds to lay the Plants with Art, 
 Repent his Labour on this needful Part. 
 
 While Fortune heretofore on Rerjia fmil’d. 
 
 The haughty Cyrus his own Gardens till’d ; 
 
 On whom the Mountain Trnolus often gaz’d 
 At fuch a Sight, from her high Brow amaz’d; 
 
 To fee him planting of a Tree or Flow’r, 
 
 Or fometimes wat ’ring what he rais’d before : 
 
 And oft his Courfe Grontes wond’ring flay’d, 3 
 To fee that Hand fo pliant to a Spade, V 
 
 Which with luch Grace the Rerfian Scepter fway’d. 3 
 To Sabine Vallies frequently from Rome , 
 
 The Nobles weary of the Town would come ; 
 
 Call off all Pride, to rural Bus’nefs take. 
 
 And either hold the Plough, or ufe the Rake. 
 
 Thus Fabius his important Hours bellow’d, 
 
 And his own Fields the great Di&ator plow’d ; 
 
 He 
 
156 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 He who to princely Senates gave Decrees, 
 
 Bluih’d not to rule the Ground, and govern Trees : 
 His mighty Hand th’ obedient Countrey fows. 
 
 When he return’d, luccefsful o’er his Foes. 
 
 The Ground thus honour’d by the Gen’rals Pains, 
 Manur’d by Heroes, and triumphant Swains, 
 
 Becomes more fertile, larger Branches {hoot, 
 
 And fhow the Planters Triumph in their Fruit. 
 
 When Maffinijfa the falfe Syphax took, 
 
 And his perfidious 'Tunic Army broke, 
 
 He the rude Lybtan Lands Obedience taught, 
 
 And barb’rous Climes to gentle Tamenefs wrought. 
 
 Great Lewis too, who bears the Kingdom’s Weight, 
 He who alone fupports and rules the State : 
 
 To Fields fometimes from his high Throne delcends. 
 And all his Leilure in his Garden {pends. 
 
 Whether he to St. Germains may retire. 
 
 Or where the Mountains of Ver failles aipire ; 
 
 Or 
 
157 
 
 Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 Or noble Fount ainbleau enjoys his Care, 
 
 The Gardens honour’d with his Orders are. 
 Innumerable Slaves around him wait. 
 
 Employ’d to keep the fpacious Garden neat : 
 
 An hundred fill with Flow’rs and Trees the Earth, 
 
 An hundred drive to give the Fountains Birth. 
 
 The King o’er all the Men and Works prefides. 
 
 And into equal Parts the Scene divides : 
 
 The grateful Earth requites his princely Grace, 
 
 Drefl by his royal Hand more glorious Charms did 
 plays. 
 
 Nor need the Mufe to Palaces refbrt, 
 
 Or bring Examples only from the Court : 
 
 The Countrey drives to do our Subjedt right. 
 
 And Gard’ning is the Gentleman’s Delight. 
 
 You whole whole Heart is on the Countrey let, 
 
 Charm’d with the Pleafures of a fvveet Retreat ; 
 
 If faired Fruit of your own Growth you prize, 
 
 The golden Store mud by your Labour rile. 
 
 In 
 
1 5 S Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 In this great Work your warmeft Efforts ule, 
 
 No Toil no dreffing to your Trees refufe : 
 
 For Trees from fav’ring Stars or a kind Soil, 
 
 Are lels affifted than from conftant Toil. 
 
 The ftubborn Glebe with Pains unweary’d move. 
 The flubborn Glebe to Mildnefs will improve. 
 
 All Nature’s Wants let Induflry fapply, 
 
 So lhall your Orchard Rains and Storms defy, > 
 Or lefs propitious Suns, or a malignant Sky. s 
 For Proof, my Mule, alledge an ancient Cafe, 
 
 Of that good Yeoman of the Marjic Race, 
 
 Who while \ curn’d his Soil with ceaflefs Care, 
 Stood an Exception to a barren Year. 
 
 His Trees ?*%ie did fo their Burthen yield. 
 
 And gold 1 . Ceres only blefs’d his Field, 
 
 His ftrangc Increafe the Neighbourhood alarms. 
 
 And Envy blackens him with magick Charms. 
 
 How 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. ijp 
 
 How by bad Art the fecret Powers he knew, V 
 
 Of Herbs that on his native Mountains grew, f \ 
 
 And thence with Hands impure forbidden PlentyM 
 drew. > ) 
 
 The Charge was mov’d in Court, the Judges fate, 
 And heard the Pris’ner in Arreft of Fate : 
 
 He reaching from the Bar the Ihining Blade, 
 
 Of his old pruning Knife, his Hook and Spade, 
 
 Worn bright with Ufe, “ Behold my magic Spells, 
 
 “ By thefe I force my Fruit, by thefe my Crop excels. 
 His Sun-burnt Arms he ftretch’d out to the Crowd, 
 And his rude Spoufe and homely DaUj. er Ihow’d, 
 Each an Accomplice in the guiltlefs Feat, 
 
 Harden’d with Labour, and imbroun’d ’th Sweat: 
 The honefl: Countreyman obtain’d his C '2, 
 
 And Induftry was crown’d with high Appl^jJe. 
 
 To Soils fo much Advantage tilling yields. 
 
 Hence Trees are crown’d with Leaves, with Corn the 
 Fields, 
 
 And 
 
160 The Orchard. Book IV*. 
 
 And Score of Fruit delightful to behold, 
 
 Mix with the greens their Purple or their Gold ; 
 Then bright with Ufe preferve your Rakes and Shears, 
 Your Forks, Crows, Mattocks, Rollers, and your Carrs, 
 Let only hoftile Arms and Trumpets raft, 
 
 And Helms negleded lie conceal’d in Duft ; 
 
 While with her bount’ous Hands aufpicious Peace, 
 Shall both the City and the Countrey blefs: 
 
 But if your Ground improve not, tho’ manur’d. 
 
 Nor can of vicious Qualities be cur’d; 
 
 Let fome more grateful Soil your Pains employ. 
 
 That will Obedience yield, and you your Wilh enjoy. 
 
 Now, Mufe, the Way of raifing Trees declare, 
 
 A needful Work, the Gardner’s fecond Care; 
 
 Who muft for this moft neceftary Ufe, 
 
 A Place diftind from all the Garden chufe. 
 
 In which wide Nurs’ry may a num rous Breed, 
 
 Of hopeful Plants fpring forth from teeming Seed : 
 
 There 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 161 
 
 There in Confufion rifing rhrong the Place, 
 
 A good Supply for the decaying Race. 
 
 To Stones and Kernels lown on proper Earth* 
 
 All the fair rural Offsprings oWe their Birth. 
 
 Without Diftindtion then orMealure bound, 
 
 Cloath ev’ry Wall, and fill each Spot of Ground: 
 
 For no fuch Fruit will foreign Trees adorn, 
 
 As grace the Saplings in your Garden born ; 
 
 Whether on wonted Food Plants freelier feed. 
 
 Or thrive belt when their Parents they fucceed ; 
 They lhould from gen’rous Stocks their Kind derive* 
 And Tokens of their Father’s Vigour give : 
 
 Thole promife moft which frequent Joints divide, 
 But fhun the fmooth, whofe Buds are fcatter’d wide. 
 
 Then for the future Race provide a Seat, 
 
 Where the Sun warms the Ground with kindly Hear* 
 Without whofe Infl’ence nothing can avail, 
 
 The Soil will languilh, and the Fruit mull fail ; 
 
 M 
 
 While 
 
1 6z 
 
 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 While his bright Eye our lower Earth furveys, 
 
 Who governs Storms, and whom the Wind obeys. 
 All earthly Things he chears, nor fails to feed, 
 
 W ith vital Juice the vegetable Breed ; 
 
 And whiie he yearly round the Zodiac rides. 
 
 He ail the annual Turns and Sealbns guides: 
 
 Who duly then his radiant Vilage views. 
 
 Of what bright Colour when he lets he Ihews, 
 
 Or what dark Spots his rifing Face lliall Itain, 
 
 Will mighty Profit from this Rev’rence gain, 
 
 Nor will the Sun behold his Field in vain. 
 
 The countrey Youth inltrudted by your Care, 
 
 Should due Refpedt to Sol and Luna bear, 
 
 Which two the Kingdom of Olympus lliare: 
 
 J 
 
 Both favour Trees, and both diredt the Swain, 
 
 WT.o from the Sun and Stars may Tokens gain : 
 Well skill’d on their Authority rely, 
 
 Nor fear the Clouds which threaten from the Sky; 
 Yet never wilh in Spring for too much Heat, 
 LdiFrolts return, and you repent too late. 
 
 And 
 
Rook IV. The Orchard. i 6 $ 
 
 And blame the Sun, who at your urgent Suit, 
 Hiften’d before their Day th ! untimely Fruit. 
 
 Tho’ likely Blooms a forward Tree dilplays, 
 
 No Credit give to what fo loon decays, y 
 
 ’Till Summer bakes the Fruit with rip’ning Rays. J 
 Oft has the Show been fair, yet thin the Crop, 
 
 And empty Flow’rs deceiv’d the Gard’ners Hope. 
 
 Sometimes when to the Summer Spring gives Place, 
 And now fair Shows of Fruit the Garden grace. 
 
 The Trees by hidden Tempers are annoy’d. 
 
 And in one Night the Year’s whole Hopes deftroy’d. 
 Rough are the Winds which at this Seafon reign. 
 
 And Boreas , fiercell of the blult’riug Train, 
 
 The flatter’d Trees with certain Ruin iliakes. 
 
 And rude Ddfrudfion o’er the Garden makes ; 
 
 While Fruit-trees then by the Spring’s Favour blow. 
 Fear ev’ry Wind, and guard againft a Foe. 
 
 M % 
 
 On 
 
i<$4 Orchard. Book IV, 
 
 On iolemn Days avert with frequent Pray’r 
 Cold Moons, in Summer Nights, which nothing fpare. 
 The nipping northern Frofts, and cloudy fouthern Air. 
 
 Oft is th’ improvident and Artlefs Swain, 
 Deferv’dly damag’d by unheeded Rain ; 
 
 Then low’ring Clouds and Omens from the Sky, 
 
 And rainy Feftivals obferve with watchful Eye. 
 
 When in theCourfe of the revolving Year, 
 
 The Months for graffing Fruit require your Care ; 
 Whether you Cuttings fix in lolid Wood, 
 
 Or in the wounded Bark inclofe a Bud, 
 
 If your Fruit be (as fome mud needs be) four. 
 Remove the harfh, and grafF a milder Store ; 
 
 Regard this Part, ye who would Honour raile 
 By Gard’ning, ’tis the Gard’ners chiefeft Praile. 
 
 Let foreign Apples in your Orchard live, 
 
 And homebred Stocks the Stranger Tear receive ; 
 
 Hence 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. i 6$ 
 
 Hence wiil your Fruir be always of the bell, 
 
 And you with Plenty of fuch Kinds be bleft. 
 
 What Fruit you want, the Fields, which neighb’ring 
 lie 
 
 In your own Countrey, may perhaps fupply ; 
 
 But where they fail, let diftant Lands be fought 
 With lludious Care, and thence the choice!! brought. 
 From barb’rous Conquefts to their own rich Soil, 
 Vidtorious Greeks brought home the fruitful Spoil ; 
 Still as their Stores encreas’d each Tree gave Rife, 
 
 To fome feign’d Tale and fabulous Devife. 
 
 Hence Pyramus and Thisbe' s mingled Blood, 
 
 On Mulberries their purple Dye bellow’d ; 
 
 In Babylon the Story’s told to prove, 
 
 The fatal Error of forbidden Love. 
 
 While ‘Demophoon forlaken Phyllis mourn’d. 
 
 On delart Shores Ihe to a Tree was turn’d, 
 
 Which fcatter’d Almonds on her Father’s Ground. 
 The Figs and Vines were full by Bacchus found, 
 
 M 3 -The 
 
1 66 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 The bearded Corn from Ceres Culture came, 
 
 And peaceful Olives were Minerva's Claim. 
 
 'T were tedious to recount the Fruit great Rome 
 From vanquilh’d Nations brought in Triumph home, 
 Tranlplanted to the cryftal Tiber's Side, 
 
 And kindly water’d by the flowing Tide; 
 
 How firft LucuUus to his native Soil 
 Tranflated Cherries , Cherafonda's Spoil ; 
 
 Her golden Apples Media there difplay’d, 
 
 And tributary ‘Plumbs ‘Damafcus paid. 
 
 What Lydia , Egypt, India could produce, 
 
 Were there collected for the Vi&or’s Ufe; 
 
 And Per fia , Carta , and a num’rous Train 
 Of vanquilh’d Realms, enrich’d the Latian Plain. 
 
 Loaded with Fruit then Thufcan Orchards Ihin’d 
 With Rows of Apples of the largefl Kind. 
 
 In Amiterna's Vale the Sabine Boars, 
 
 Added Bon-cretiens to their former Stores, 
 
 TV Art, 
 
 i 
 
1 67 
 
 Book VI. The Orchard. 
 
 Th 'Auruncans did with fatted Olives fill, 
 
 And thicked Vines Taburnus fruitful Hill. 
 
 While Anio wond’ring, view’d along his Shore 
 A beaut’ous Product, and unknown before. 
 
 Thus Fruit of ev’ry Kind from ev’ry Place, 
 
 % 
 
 Did fair Oenotrias (lately Villa’s grace; 
 
 Which here are oft improv’d with artful Care, 
 
 Bled with a fertile Soil, and genial Air. 
 
 Soon as your Artid (hall have chofe the bed, 
 To charm the Sight, and pleafe the curious Tade, 
 I’ll teach him then thefe Cyons how to join 
 To fome kind Stock, that will adopt their Line : 
 Various the Methods, but perform’d with Eafe, 
 
 To grafF a fruitful Branch on barren Trees. 
 
 Some will the Trees behead, lop off their Pride, 
 And into four the naked Trunks divide ; 
 
 As ent’ring Wedges by the Wood-man s Stroke, 
 Square into even Parts the rifted Oak, 
 
 M 4 
 
 The 
 
1 68 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 The cloven Stocks the fertile Sprigs receive, 
 
 And kindly vegetative Moifture give : 
 
 Some in the Bark a flight Inciflon make. 
 
 Fit for the Orifice a Bud they take; 
 
 The willing Rind does the new Gueft indole 
 VV ith clammy Sweat, and by Degrees it grows: 
 
 Some like a flender Pipe the Slit contrive. 
 
 Others to form it like a Scutcheon ftrive; 
 
 Some bore the folid Trunk with piercing Steel, 
 
 And with th: cholen Plant the Pafiage fill; 
 
 This Task perform’d let your induftrious Hind, 
 
 With fevenfold Bands the wounded Subftance bind, 
 Loaming or waxing o’er the Cleft with Care, 
 
 Leaving no Pafiage for th’ inclement Air, 
 
 Left interpofing it difturb the Juice, 
 
 And to the ftarving Graft due Nourifhment refule. 
 
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 If juftly all’s perform’d, the grafting right, 
 
 And Cyans clofeiy with the Stocks unite, 
 
 This 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 16$ 
 
 This happy Mixture you with Joy will fee. 
 
 Produce a wond’rous Change in ev’ry Tree ; 
 
 What was of lavage Kind will milder grow, 
 forget its Nature and its Sour foregoe. 
 
 The yellow Quince, and dull Cornelian Race, 
 
 With particolour’d Fruit their Boughs will grace; 
 The worthlels Thorn a valu’d Tlumb will bear. 
 
 And what was gritty prove a melting Tear ; 
 
 Th’ ingrafted Cherry Stock will mend its Juice, 
 Adulterate flourilh, and fair Fruit produce: 
 
 On the fame Trunk more Kinds will friendly grow. 
 And different Apples load each different Bough. 
 
 Learn now what Kinds afTo date with Delight, 
 What Cyons with what Stocks will bell unite. 
 
 Gladly the Quince into her Stock receives 
 All Sorts of Tears , and her own Tin&ure gives; 
 The friendly Tear with Apples blends her Juice, ~y 
 Nor with Difdain from Sallows will refule > 
 
 To draw the Sap, and thence fair Fruit produce. ) 
 
 , The 
 
170 
 
 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 The Mulberry and Fig will well agree, 
 
 If no foul Colour ftains their Progeny. 
 
 The Cherry courts the yielding Laurel’s Bed, 
 
 And their bright Offspring wears a blufhing red. 
 Apples on nipples with mixt Flavours grow. 
 
 And Tears will flourifh on the harfhefl Sloe, 
 
 If what Talladius wrote we will believe. 
 
 And Credit to exploded Precepts give. 
 
 The Moderns, by Experience, dearly found 
 Miftakes in all old Precepts to abound ; 
 
 Deceiv’d by Rules, Auvergnian Planters drove 
 By Sallow Stocks their Apples to improve; 
 
 A lively Colour did the Produd grace. 
 
 But vain their Hopes, fince the degen’rate Race 
 By their harfli Tafte betray’d the fpecious Cheat, 
 Falfhood lurks in their Charms, their Beauty’s but De- 
 ceit. 
 
 Next learn the native Genius of your Trees, 
 
 What Soil and Air their diff ’rent Humours pleafe ; 
 
 You’ll 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 171 
 
 You’ll find the gilded Apple feldom fail. 
 
 In a warm Climate and a marihy Vale: 
 
 On Mountains plac’d, or on a rocky Soil, 
 
 It drops untimely Fruit, and mocks your Toil. 
 
 A rawer Land the Fig-tree will endure. 
 
 If fenc’d from northern Winds, from Frcfis fecure ; 
 On landy Ground the downy Teach will thrive. 
 While kindly Show’rs proportion’d Moifture give; 
 But Tear-trees mud enjoy the open Fields, 
 
 Where fmiling Thoebus his Affiftance yields. 
 
 Where the rich Mould with Sap their Roots may feed. 
 Thus Blofioms will abound, and Fruit fucceed. 
 
 The Mulberry your dryefl: Earth will chule. 
 
 Unus’d to Springs unwaih’d with falling Dews, ( 
 E’en Apples in too moift a Ground their pleafing Fla-J 
 vours lofe, 
 
 Cherries , prolifick will in ev’ry Place, 
 
 From their deep Roots fend forth a great Encreafe,^ 
 As in Oenotria Iboots the Olive Race. 
 
 In 
 
17* The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 In a mild Earth will Citrons faired ihow, 
 
 But in a courfer yellow Quinces grow. 
 
 No burning Soil with Afiricocks agrees. 
 
 Nor Stones with Cherries or with Strawberries ; 
 
 But Straw Sr tes in a Trench of well wrought Ground 
 To the warm Sun expos’d, with Juice abound. 
 Citrons and Melons for mild Air decline 
 The rifing Hills, which boad the fruitful Vine ; 
 
 And 'Plumbs , when planted in a temp’rate Soil, 
 
 Will anfwer with their Fruit the Gard’ners Willi and 
 Toil. 
 
 Your Orchard planted, dill with Care furvey. 
 
 If any Trees Ihows Symptoms of Decay, 
 
 On the didemper’d Tree try all your Art, 
 
 E’er the Contagion hurts the vital Part. 
 
 If Thorns or baleful Weeds the Trees annoy, 
 
 By Culture Thorns and baleful Weeds dedroy ; 
 
 5 Tis Culture from Decay your Stock defends, 
 Improves the Fruit, and its harlh Flavour mends: 
 
 Who 
 
Book IV. The Orchard* 17^ 
 
 Who thus the hidebound Glebe by digging breaks. 
 And plains the Surface o’er with fraoothing Rakes, 
 Makes from the Root the ftrength’ning Sap afcend* 
 And ev’ry Bough beneath its Burden bend. 
 
 Where through the Soil a min’ral Salt does run, 
 Hurtful to Plants, the Ground detefted fhun 5 
 On this the Gard’ner fpends a fruitleis Pain, 
 
 Falfe are his Wilhes, his Endeavours vain ; 
 
 Nor Winter’s Frofl: with nipping Force can tame 
 The ftubborn Mould, nor Summer Gales reclaim $ 
 
 The Show’rs avail not, (till your Fruits forget 
 Their nat’ral Glories, and degenerate. 
 
 Nor Culture, Air, or Soil alone will do, 
 
 Without a proper Diipofition too ; 
 
 The Situation your Dire&or make, 
 
 And as it varies difF’rent Meafures take. 
 
 In Ipacious Plains where T bos bus gilds the Air, 
 
 Their lofty Heads let taller Fruit-trees rear ; 
 
 Tho* 
 
174 
 
 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Tho’ others more admire the dwarfifli Kind, 
 
 And their Shrub Boughs in little Circles bind : 
 
 Others for Warmth line ev’ry Wall with Fruit, 
 
 And hold in eafy Bands each pliant Shoot. 
 
 Some Men in Hedges wreath the neighb’ring Boughs, 
 Where Fruit adorns the long extended Rows : 
 
 Thele various Methods fo difpole, that thence 
 May rile both Beauty and Convenience. 
 
 Nor the old Rules too haftily believe. 
 
 Attend to thofe our modern ArtiBs give, 
 
 Whole happy Genius has in Gard’ning Ihown, 
 
 Arts more polite than by our Fathers known. 
 
 Plant not in open Fields the tender Kinds, 
 
 Averfe to hoarFroBs, and the blalting Winds: 
 
 As Figs which never in Perfe&ion eat, 
 
 Unlels well mellow’d by the Summer’s Heat. 
 
 The Cherry , Filberd , Apple, Tlumb, and Tear >. 
 May Band expos’d, nor fear the piercing Air, v 
 And Almond-trees all Kinds of Weather bear. ) 
 
 If 
 
Book IV. The Orchard." 
 
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 If a juft Flavour in your Fruit you prize. 
 
 And would preferve their Colour and their Size, * 
 
 At a due Diftance plant each fpreading Tree, 
 
 Leave for the genial Sun a PalTage free ; 
 
 For there your Fruit in full Perfection grows. 
 
 Where no injurious Shades can interpofe ; 
 
 Whether from ‘Phoebus Influence this proceeds, 
 Whofe Beams direct with Heat prolifkk Seeds ; 
 
 Or the great Trunk more vig’rous fills its Pores 
 With richer Nourifhment from larger Stores; 
 
 Or ambient Zephyrs purer Odours fired. 
 
 And breath Refrelhment on the lofty Head. 
 
 Then open to the Sun your Fruit expofe. 
 
 He helps their Flavour, and Protection fliows; 
 Indulgent while your Plants are young, take Care 
 To form their Limbs with Strength, theirVigcurchear; 
 Let artful Hands the Leaves redundant crop. 
 
 And pruning Knives luxuriant Branches lop ; 
 
 That 
 
1 76 
 
 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 That neither Boughs may fhade the Parent Tree,’ 
 Nor they o’erladen with their Burden be. 
 
 But chiefly all th’ unlikely Brood difplace, 
 
 And wait with Patience till a better Race 
 Shall early Hopes of innate Vigour give, 
 
 Flourifti iecure, and of themfelves can thrive ; 
 
 The Mother Tree for her loft Offspring chear. 
 
 And footh her Sorrow with your utmoft Care. 
 
 Tho’ loaded Trees may glut your Avarice* 
 
 Too much Fertility becomes a Vice. 
 
 In Fruit the Number may the Worth impair. 
 
 Thin them betimes, the teeming Branches fpare ; 
 
 No Stock too pregnant can long Time remain,- 
 For overbearing will its Vigour drain; 
 
 Its Strength exhaufted thus it faplefs lies* 
 
 And with’ring at the Root untimely dies. 
 
 Then in Companion to the weary Trees, 
 
 Relieve their Labour with alternate Eafe, 
 
 And 
 
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Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
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 And when unwilling force ’em nor to bear, 
 
 That you may ever our juft Praifes hear. 
 
 Oft have I in our Suburb Gardens been. 
 
 And in their Management this Error feen. 
 
 The greedy Churls with Dung o’erload the Earth, 
 And thus with hot Beds force an hafty Birth ; 
 The Fruits before their Hated Time appear, 
 
 And leem to change the Seafons of the Year: 
 Shun, O ye Planters, this delufive Cheat, 
 
 Nor fuch pernicious Patterns imitate ; 
 
 Their Fruits deftrudave to the parent Wood, 
 Deftroy its Health, and drink its vital Blood : 
 
 A gnawing Canker on the Branches preys, 
 
 The Stock becomes infirm and foon decays; 
 
 But wait their deftin’d Seafbn ; and forbear 
 With eager Hands untimely Fruit to tear 
 From their fond Mother, left you her deftroy, 
 And with unwholfome Juice your Stomach cloy. 
 
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The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 178 
 
 9 
 
 If curious you in faired Fruit delight, 
 
 Which gratify theTade and pleafe theSight, 
 
 You mull with Art on neighb’ring Walls difpole 
 The fruitful Race in long extended Rows ; 
 
 Whereon, when Thoebus cuts the middle Line, 
 
 His hotted; fouthern Rays diredly lhine; 
 
 The Rays reflected, double Heat bellow. 
 
 And the well painted Fruits their proper Colours Ihow. 
 
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 How this Improvement may be bed obtain’d, 
 
 And Fruit be with the riched Colours dain’d, 
 
 My Mule lhall all the needful Art repeat. 
 
 And fing the Method ofincreafing Heat. 
 
 Fird in a draight long Line a Wall ered. 
 
 Full to the South, whence warmed Gleams refled ; 
 The Surface next with unflack’d Lime fmooth o’er. 
 Lime makes the Rays return with greater Pow’r, 
 And kills fuch Worms as otherwife would breed, 
 And on the Trees with dire Dedrudion feed: 
 
 Along 
 
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 Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 Along the Wall let iron Hooks be plac’d. 
 
 To hold your Poles or Rods of Willow faff ; 
 Thefe will liipport the Trees, tho’ fbme for ShoWj 
 In graceful Order bind each ftragling Bough : 
 Others to greater Splendour (till alpire* 
 
 And tie the whole extended Row with Wire 5 
 In time the tender Branches will comply, 
 
 . And of themfelves their proper Polls fupply } 
 
 If taught by long Obedience to fubmit, 
 
 The Yoke by Culiom will more eafy fit : 
 
 But elder ihoots, when they with Age are ftay’ck 
 
 ^ . . , . 
 
 They reftiff grow, nor will on Walls be laid 5 
 That they may freely bend on ev’ry Side, 
 
 Eafy and ready as your Hand fhall guide, 
 
 Inftrud: with Difcipline their early’ft Growth* 
 
 And breed ’em to it from their tender Youth* 
 
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 Plant ’em along the Wall as foon as bora, 
 
 For cuftomary Bonds without Regret are Worn, 
 
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 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Nor will their Beauty Buffer by thele Chains, 
 
 If through the Wall a decent Order reigns; 
 
 As Ladies when they drefs to go abroad, 
 
 Bind up their Locks according to the Mode, 
 
 In artful Ringlets curl their lovely Hair, 
 
 Which adds new Charms and Beauties to the Fair: 
 So more engaging Beauty will be found 
 In captive Trees with ealy Fetters bound. 
 
 Where no loofe Bough irregularly Brays, 
 
 But a juft Order all the Wall arrays. 
 
 Such handiome Cloathing as like Arras rhows. 
 On Walls and Fields, a comely Grace beftovvs ; 
 Chiefly when various Dyes enrich the Suit, 
 
 While different Seafons paint the lovely Fruit ; 
 With Joy the Gard’ner fees his Labour bleft. 
 
 His landlcape Wall in Light and Shadows dreft : 
 Tire purple Fig with blulhing Teaches joins, 
 
 And his whole Orchard with its Burden ihines : 
 
 For 
 
Book IV. 
 
 The Orchard. 
 
 For when with particolour’d Fruit array’d, 
 
 The Summer’s in her richeft Liv’ry clad ; 
 
 When of themfelvesthe wealthy Trees unfold. 
 Through verdant Leaves their vegetable Gold ; 
 Delightful then is walking in the Fields, 
 
 Viewing the V ilT or what the Garden yields. 
 With wondring Eyes to fee the Fruit fo fair, 
 
 To pull the full grown Produ&s of the Year, 
 And Home the valu’d Prize in Baskets bear. 
 
 Thus while the Gardners Art employs your Thou 
 Which is the choicer! Kind of all your Fruit, 
 What are the different Natures of your Trees, 
 What Culture with your Orchard bell agrees, 
 And when luxuriant Branches to fupprefs, 
 
 What Stocks and Grafts united feldom fail. 
 
 How far the Grafts, h.ow far the Stocks prevail : 
 No Wealth or Pow’r can greater Pleaftire yield, 
 Than you’ll enjoy in your own native Field ; 
 
 No foul Ambition will your Soul inflame, 
 
 Nor fire you with undue Defire of Fame ; 
 
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 I Si The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Nor will vain Promifes, the Courts Deceit, 
 
 Difturb your anxious Mind alpiring to be great. 
 
 How happy they whom rural Joys thus pleafe ! 
 For whether they obferve their growing Trees ; 
 
 Qr when full Boughs beneath their Burthen bend, 
 With ready Props their timely Succour lend; 
 
 Whether the Flavour of their Plumbs they, cade. 
 And gather what they like for a Repaft ; 
 
 Or for new foreign Fruit new Names contrive, 
 
 How exquifite the Joys luch Entertainments give! 
 
 If you in Order and in Grace take Pride, 
 
 Ipto juft Diftances the Wall divide ; 
 
 To ev’ry Tree its proper Seat affign. 
 
 Cherries in one, Figs in another Line; 
 
 Vhce'Tear/s and Berg’ mots with the Britijh Fear ; 
 
 111 with red Flutnbs green Flpples interfere, 
 
 But the fame Kinds a common Brightnels fhare : 
 
 All 
 
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 Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 All dreft with equal Pains will equal thrive, 
 
 If to your Trees you can large Spaces give. 
 
 Left if a needful Diftance you deny. 
 
 The ftraiten’d Earth o’erftock’d fails in her juft Supply. 
 
 What are the various Kinds of fruitful Trees, 
 
 And how their Shape and Nature difagrees, 
 
 Or with what Species multiply’d by Skill, 
 
 Gardners their Stores increafe and Orchards fill, 
 
 'Is not a Poet’s Bufinefs to recite, 
 
 Loft in an endlefs Maze where nothing can delight. 
 
 Why Ihould I Ipeak of Teaches, whence they came. 
 Their Flavours, or their different Colours name ; 
 
 One Kind not much unlike to T limbs is thin, 
 
 And wears no woolly Down upon its Skin ; 
 
 Some to their Stones of firm Confiftence cleave, 
 Others their Stones moft readily will leave ; 
 
 Thele laft, abounding with large Store of Juice, 
 
 Are the beft Fruit which Terfla does produce. 
 
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 T'he Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Nor can my Mofe all other Wall-fruit trace, 
 
 Their Shapes, their Natures, or their difPrent Race; 
 Whether the Kind which wild Armenia, bred, 
 
 \v nole Beauty blulhes with a native red. 
 
 Or thofe Alcinous with his royal Hand, 
 
 F ull grown, translated from a foreign Land ; 
 
 Or thofe Taburtia yields, a pleafant Race, 
 
 Which yet to fweet Ticenian Fruit gives Place : 
 
 Or why Should I the Quince's Praife fet forth. 
 
 Which lefs of Scent they have, the more of Worth ; 
 Of Cherries , belt when eaten fading tell, > 
 
 Or lufcious Figs , , which with rich Ne&ar fwell, i 
 And all ambrofial Wall-fruit far excel. 3 
 
 But Nature ne'er more Wantonnefs exprefs’d, 
 
 Than when lire Tears in various Figures drefs’d, 
 
 1 10 m J hardens and the larger Kinds to thole 
 Of leffer Growth, one round, one oblong grows, 
 Tunbelly’d aukwardly with Necks awry, 
 
 Nor have their Flavours iefs Variety ; 
 
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Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
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 An equal Tafte to racy Wine fome bea^ 
 
 And may with the Falernian Juice compare; 
 
 Others are temper’d with a milder Guft, 
 
 And in their Flavours more refemble Muft. 
 
 Grapes too and Flumbs their proper Praife obtain. 
 If Props againfc a Wall the Trees fuftain ; 
 
 Both the Mufcat and the bright purple Vine 
 Deferve a Wall, and grace the fruitful Line. 
 
 Perhaps my Mule, if not in Hafte, fliould fliow 
 From fragrant Melons what rich Odours flow ; 
 
 With what fweet Juices Nature fills the Vein 
 Of humble Stra wberries , and the blulhing Train. 
 
 If you would Trees on Walls with Judgment lpread. 
 Let them or like an open Hand be laid. 
 
 With all the Branches ipreading from the Roor, 
 
 Or like a Fi ill’s Back-bone let ’em fnoot. 
 
 The Branches from an upright Trunk produc’d. 
 
 Both Ways are good, and lo may both be us’d. 
 
 Of 
 
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 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Of iuch Importance is the Pruner’s Care, 
 
 No Repetition can be tedious here ; 
 
 The Trees to any beaut’ous Form are brought, 
 
 And pliant yield to whatfoe’er they’re taught ; 
 
 Your Swain then, e’er their Limbs with Age are flay’d. 
 Should trim, and form ’em with his crooked Blade. 
 If from their Wounds the Trees again bud out, 
 Recover Strength, and with new Vigour fhoot, 
 
 Still he mull ufe the fame Severity, 
 
 And with new pruning cultivate the Tree : 
 
 For Trees at ev’ry Age by Nature are 
 Unskill’d in breeding, and unlearn’d to bear. 
 
 The Pruner’s felf mufl his Affiflance give. 
 
 And of its ufelefs Boughs the Tree relieve ; 
 
 Mufl pare fuperfluous, empty Twigs away. 
 
 And teach th’ unruly Branches to obey. 
 
 In early Growth reflrain wild Luxury, 
 
 Nor fpare the Boughs, for fparing fpoils the Tree. 
 
 Which 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 187 
 
 Which arc the Branches you mull prune, and how. 
 Experience and a Maher only lliow ; 
 
 He leaves the chiefeh Stem, and hopeful Shoot, 
 Knows where t’ expert, and where defpair of F uit ; 
 Then if the Seafon anfwers to your Care, 
 
 A vah Increafe will on the Trees appear ; 
 
 They will with rich ambrofial Stores be crown’d. 
 And faireh Fruit through the whole Line abound. 
 
 If on a Wall you Ipread th’ extended Row, 
 
 You’ll fee the utmoh that your Fruit can do, 
 Refle&ed Rays will paint their Colour fair. 
 
 Enlarge their Size ; no other Art or Care 
 Hath like Effects ; then from Enquiries ceafe: 
 
 For all own this the Gard’ners Maher piece. 
 
 But tho’ the Modems boaft t’ have found the Way 
 Of rip’ning Fruit by doubling ev’ry Ray; 
 
 Yet 
 
The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Yet Tome from obfcure Hints think they can trace A 
 Focxtfteps of this great Art in ancient Days, > 
 Vouch their Antiquity, and give our Sires the Praife.^ 
 
 If we may credit what the Poets fing, 
 
 Tis laid Alcinous the fam’d Gard’ne r King 
 This Method introduc’d. Long had his Trees 
 Flourifh’d fecure, and yielded great Encreafe, 
 
 And as the Spring came on they now obey’d 
 Springs genial Pow’r, and hopeful Blooms dilplay’d. 
 When Boreas blufter’d forth with ftormy Blaft, 
 
 And in one Night laid all the Garden wafte. 
 
 If here and there a Tree by chance furviv’d 
 The dreadful Shock, and with their Bio Horns liv’d ; 
 Yet they untimely Fruit did after bear, 
 
 Sour’d by fh’ inclement Sun and tainted Air; 
 
 Strange Thunders too then threaten’d from on high, 
 Tho’ clear the Air, and bright the open Sky. 
 
 This Omen Defolation did foretell, 
 
 Which Defolation on the Gardens fell. 
 
 Th’af- 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 189 
 
 Th’ affrighted King does for the Augurs fend, 
 
 And asks what this dire Omen might portend. 
 
 Bids ’em conlult the dark Decrees of Fate, 
 
 And whence this mighty Ruine Iprung, relate. 
 
 From Calais and Zethes fome divin’d, 
 
 (Rough Boreas Sons) might rife the ftormy Wind. 
 To the King’s Daughter both had Suiters been, 
 
 And fought her Bed, encourag’d by the Queen ; 
 
 The Virgin nor refus’d ’em, nor comply’d; 
 
 But both their Suits the King and State deny’d. 
 Boreas refenting in his haughty Mind 
 Th’ Affront, with the reje&ed Lovers join’d, v 
 And in Revenge rais’d this tempeft’ous Wind. y 
 One Augur Circe , one Calypfo blames. 
 
 To King Alcinous ever hated names. 
 
 In her revengeful Mind Calypfo bore, 
 
 Flow the Thracians from her widow’d Shore 
 Receiv’d Ulyjfes , whom flie call’d her own, 
 
 And vow’d they Ihould repent the Wrong they’d done. 
 
 While 
 
190 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 While molt on Circe's magic Charms refled, 
 
 Her Hatred, and her rival Pow’r fufped ; 
 
 She could the Brightnefs of the Moon impair 
 With Spells, and fpread Contagion through the Air 
 
 But good Eurymedon , Apollo's Priefl, 
 
 And fav’rite Prophet thus himfelf exprefs’cL; 
 a We ihould not leek for Caufes from abroad, 
 
 “ Ours is the Guilt and we deferve the Load. 
 
 Then Silence kept, and turn’d with Sorrow pale. 
 
 The King commands he Ihould the Crime reveal, 
 And what his dubious Anfvver meant. Then he. 
 
 Few Words fuit bell with this Extremity, 
 
 “ Much have we felt yet fear a greater Blow, 
 
 “ ’TisTime we then by Prayers Repentance fhoW, 
 “ The Vengeance of the angry Gods we bear, 
 
 “ Becaufe your Majefty to your own Care 
 “ Afcribes the Plenty of your Royal Stores, 
 
 “ Returns no Thanks, no rural Pow’r adores; 
 
 u Negleds 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
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 “ Negle&s the Sun, who rales the Air and Storms, 
 w Nor to the Winds, or Jove their Rites performs. 
 Then conlcious of his Guilt the King afham’d. 
 
 His own proud Heart and ftubborn Boldnefs blam’d. 
 Straight to the Woods they hafte; in whofe Recels 
 Refides the fam’d Hefperian Prophetefs : 
 
 Through the ftill Wood a whifp’ring Voice they hear. 
 “ Go, and for mighty Jove twelve Bulls prepare, 
 
 « c For T hoe bus twelve, both Deities appeafe, 
 
 “ Both rule the pregnant Earth, and give th’Increafe. 
 They went and did with Sacrifice revere 
 Bright Thee bus, and th’ almighty Thunderer , 
 
 Which good Eurymedon ordain’d fliouid be 
 Yearly perform’d to late Pofterity. 
 
 ’Twas then Alcinous by the Nymphs Advice 
 Againft the North, whence bleak eft Storms arife, 
 Rais’d high a Wall both Boreas to defeat. 
 
 And to reflect the Sun with double Heat. 
 
 Thus 
 
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 Thus planting to the Wall did firfl: obtain, 
 
 Which tho’ in time Hefperia dropt again. 
 
 The Norman Swains reviv’d in latter Days, 
 
 Their ftarving Clime far from the Sun difplays, \ 
 No grateful Fruit but from refledfed Rays, J 
 
 The Cuftom thence to Royal Faris came, 
 
 Which now through France extends itsUfe and Name. 
 
 If my Advice has Weighr, early prepare 
 This needful Ornament, nor fparing fear 
 T’ extend the Wall in Length, the fpreading Trees 
 Will cloath the whole with Verdure by Degrees. 
 Attend with Diligence your Charge each Day, 
 
 And as through Leaves, and growingFruit you flray,( 
 Cut the luxuriant wanton Sprigs away, ^ 
 
 Protect each hopeful Shoot, and teeming Bud ; 
 
 But quell the faucy overbearing Wood. 
 
 The Mailer’s Hand of chief Advantage is, 
 
 To the fair Garden, and the fruitful Trees, 
 
 If 
 
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 Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 If any Tree forlakes the friendly Wall, 
 
 Or loofen’d Branches from their Perches fall* 
 
 He’s always there the Stragglers to reftrain. 
 
 And in fair Order Ipread the Wall again. 
 
 When once the Ground’s prepar’d, the Mailer bell 
 From his Experience will diredt the reft ; 
 
 Daily he views his Trees with watchful Eyes* 
 
 And firft difcovers where their Merit lies* 
 
 Knows with what Stocks what Grafts will kindly luita 
 And all the difF’rent Flavours of his Fruit. 
 
 With Warmth in ev’ry Part he plies his Care* 
 
 Nor refts until the hopeful Blooms appear, 
 
 Or loaden’d Branches crown the joyful Year. 
 
 The lazy Lab’rer you muft foon dilcard, 
 
 Who undertakes this Work muft urge it hard. 
 
 To cultivate each Tree* to tame the Soil, 
 
 And cure the ftubborii Glebe is no fmall Toil % 
 
 With rotten Dung dildain not, over-nice. 
 
 To ply the Ground, nor dirty Work delpife. 
 
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194 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Nourilh’d with Dung, the teeming Earth with Joy 
 
 Brings forth a ftrong and num’rous Progeny 1 . 
 
 Often with heavy Rakes turn up the Mould, 
 
 And let it frequently the Sun behold ; 
 
 If no Succefs fo juft a Toil procures, 
 
 The Fault, ye rude injurious Winds, is yours; 
 
 The humble Earth by Nature’s made to be 
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 Subje<ft to yours, and Heav’ns Authority. 
 
 Ye airy Pow’rs the tender Orchards fpare. 
 
 So lhall the Trees a kind Reward prepare; 
 
 While we your friendly Deities adore, 
 
 And crown your Altars with a golden Store. 
 
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 A thoufand Plagues, with many a dire Difeafe, 
 
 A thoufand Foes furround the harmlefs Trees. 
 
 From thefe you muft defend their Growth with Care, a 
 O ft in the Spring from an infetftious Air, s. 
 
 A Blaft deftroys the Hopes of all the Year. 3 
 
 If ftill malignant Stars and Air combine 
 To Ihed their Plagues, andfick’ning Trees decline. 
 
 With 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 
 
 *95 
 
 With Sacrifices to the Gods repair; 
 
 No Shield againft fuch Ills prevails but Pray’r. 
 
 What Trees decay through Age or dire Difeale, 
 Cut down ; the Lofs you’ll foon repair with Eale; 
 
 A youthful Heir will with more comely Grace, 
 
 And richer Plenty fill the vacant Space. 
 
 By the Tree^s Look his Age arid Strength you’ll find: 
 If the dry Wood fliows through the gaping Rind* 
 
 If this alone, while green the reft appear, 
 
 Languiihes with a pale and fickly Air ; 
 
 Let not the Bill the ill-lobk’d Branches Ipare. 
 
 If through the Bark a loathfome Canker eats. 
 
 And burning Mols the horrid Trunk belets; 
 
 But e’er thisPeft the pining Tree confumes, 
 
 Exhaufts the Sap, and to the Vitals comes, 
 
 Apply your Blade to the corroding Sore, 
 
 And deep Incifion lliall defeat its Pow’r ; 
 
 But if the dire Diftemper’s gone too far, 
 
 That the dead Boughs no verdant Honours wear ; 
 
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 if 
 
1 96 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 If the Ground’s barren, and has no EfFe<ft, 
 
 Dig round, and your impoveriih’d Soil correct 
 With Swine’s or Pidgeon’s Dung; Dung will convey 
 New Life into the lean and hungry Clay. 
 
 In Trenches fome with Fern and fat’ning Loam, 
 
 / I V 
 
 Dry Leaves or Bean-lhells, or the pliant Broom 
 Mix up their Mould ; while others Ipread the Field 
 With Allies, all a juft Improvement yield. 
 
 Nor muft your Soil too rich with Juice abound ; 
 
 As Want of Nourilhment in barren Ground 
 Starves tender Plants ; exub’rant Fatnels cloys: 
 Plenty as well as Poverty deftroys. 
 
 How then to temper, or improve the Land, 
 
 Are Arts beft copy’d from the Mafter’s Hand. 
 
 Befide the Ravage from impetuous Rain, 
 
 And more pernicious Hail ; a num’rous Train 
 Of other Plagues your Fruit-trees will deform. 
 
 The Gnat, the buzzing Drone, the Palmer- worm, 
 
 The 
 
Book IV. T’/'f Orchard. 
 
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 The wily Spinlter, and the creeping Snail, 
 
 That lies infolded in her twilled Shell, 
 
 Wood-pecks, and various Birds the Trees invade, 
 Whofe threat’ning Beaks the tender Orchards dread ; 
 Some Tigers call’d, becaufe the rav’nous Race, 
 
 With dire Deltrudtion all the Fruit deface. 
 
 Deftroy thele Plagues, and with alcending Smoke 
 Smother the Worms that harbour in the Stock. 
 
 Why Ihould I name the blindly delving Mole, 
 
 And Moufe that plunders from her fecret Hole, 
 
 The various painted Lizzard, and the Flies ; 
 
 Th’ impatient Swain ill brooks thele Enemies ? 
 
 Then lay your Traps as Ufe prefcribes, and fo 
 Your Orchard free from ev’ry rav’nous Foe. 
 
 From farther Laws the conlcious Mufe refrains ; 
 
 I fpeak not to fuch rude unpolilli’d Swains, 
 
 As in old time Laurent urn's Countrey till’d; 
 
 For Art now reigns with Nature in the Field. 
 
 Time has lo far improv’d on Nature’s Store, 
 
 That fcarce this Age can add one Precept more. 
 
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 Ye 
 
The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 Ye (lately Seats and potent Lords excufe 
 Th’ expiring Strains of an unequal Mufe, 
 
 That dares not try her humble Voice to raife, 
 
 To fing your Gardens, and his Countrey’s Praife. 
 
 Perhaps hereafter, if that France obtains 
 Her ancient Grandeur, and her Wealth regains. 
 Gardens fliall all the Fruits of Peace enjoy, 
 
 And Fortune call on them a fav ’ring Eye. 
 
 Wars have of late, till within thefe few Years, 
 Harrafs’d all Europe with diflradting Cares ; 
 
 Then Fevers rag’d, and Famine (lalk’d abroad, \ 
 The Fields with civil Blood were all o’erflow’d, > 
 And no propitious God Companion fliow’d. ' 
 What Language can defcribe the horrid Crimes 
 Committed in thofe very word of Times? 
 
 All Laws were broke, all Vows were made in vain, 
 And Kings themfelves by their own Subjects flain. 
 More grievous Ills hung hov’ring o’er this Land, 
 When valiant Lewis , by high Heav’ns Command, 
 
 Appear’d, 
 
 r 
 
Book IV. The Orchard. 199 
 
 Appear’d, bleft Omen to the finking State, 
 
 Sent by the Gods t’ avert impending Fate! 
 
 That Prince no fooner won by Arms Renown, 
 
 And added neighb’ring Kingdoms to his own ; 
 
 But unto thee Lamoigwn he refign’d, 
 
 The Reins of Juftice, that he might Mankind 
 To Goodnefs, and the Love of Arts engage. 
 
 And bring on Earth again the golden Age. 
 
 Such your Example is, fo juft you live. 
 
 Such whollbme Laws to all the Realm you give, 
 That from your Miniftry we may prefume, 
 
 Aflraa to the World once more will come. 
 
 You skilful Secrets to the Swains impart, 
 
 They read your Precepts, and renew their Art. 
 France fhall again with verdant Groves be crown’d, 
 And ev’ry Field with rural Joys abound. 
 
 Thus from Tarijian Clermont s tow ’ring Height, 
 Vainly purfuing Marti * s facred Flight, 
 
100 
 
 The Orchard. Book IV. 
 
 I Tung of Gardens, while my native Land, 
 
 Bleft with her Monarch, under his Command 
 Flourilh’d fecure, the willing World obey’d. 
 
 Our Laws and Nations joyful Homage pay’d. 
 
IN D E X to the Firft Book, which 
 treats of Flowers. 
 
 A IR, 'Flowers delight in a clear 
 open Air. 3 
 
 Beds or Borders for Flowers fttould 
 be rais'd and laid round like the 
 Back of a Carp ; this Method was 
 firft prattifed byMonfieur le Notre. 
 
 ' . 57 
 
 Box the heft of all Edgings for a 
 large Flower-garden may be plant- 
 ed in Spring or Autumn. 5, 10 
 
 — Should be fhorn in thofe two 
 
 Seafons . 55 
 
 Bulbous Roots muft be taken up and 
 dry d, and put into the Ground 
 again in O&ober. 55 
 
 Deiign or Plan for a Parterre or 
 Flower-plat fhould be firft drawn 
 upon Parchment before it be put 
 in Execution . 8 
 
 Expofition. The eaftern Expofition 
 agrees beft with Flowers : 3 
 
 France excels all Countries in Eu- 
 rope for Parterres or Flower-gar- 
 dens. 7 
 
 Flora, the Goddefs of Flowers her 
 felf fi r fi receiv'd Advantage from 
 Drefs, and that ga ve Rife to the 
 dr effing of Flower-gardens. 6 
 Florill:, if an Artift , may very much 
 add to the Beauty of Flowers , by 
 making them blow fooner or la- 
 ter than their natural Seafon with 
 new Colours and double Blojfoms . 
 
 $3 
 
 Flowers are ufieful for adorning the 
 Houfe* 42, 43 
 
 Of Ufe for fvjeet Waters , 
 
 Powders , and Oyls. 44 
 
 Honey is extr aisled from Flow- 
 
 ers, ^ _ 4 g 
 
 Painting owes its Birth to 
 
 Flo wers, 44 
 
 3 — Flowers 
 
INDEX 
 
 — Flozvers are of life in heal- 
 
 ing Diftempers of the Body. 4$ 
 
 Story cf a Man who did 
 
 much Good in the Neighbourhood 
 where he lived , by curing Difea- 
 fes with medicinal Blowers. 45, 46 
 Lamoignon, fir ft Prefident of the 
 Parliatnent of Paris. His Cha- 
 ratter. 1, 3 
 
 May the moft delightful Month in 
 the whole Tear defcrib'd. 30 
 Moon. The Florift muft have a fpe- 
 cial Regard to the Moon in [ow- 
 ing his Seed, or planting his Flozv- 
 ersy which muft be always [own 
 or planted in the Encreafe of the 
 Moon. 57 
 
 O&ober a bufty Month voith the 
 Florift . 5 5 
 
 Seed. The moft ufual time for [ow- 
 ing of Flower-feed is the Spring : 
 The more tender on a hot Bed in 
 March, and the more hardy on a 
 Border in the open Air in April. 
 
 18, 19 
 
 Raiftng Flowers from Seed is 
 
 the niceft and moft difficult Part 
 of a Florift' s Bufinefs : For before 
 he enters upon tt t he Jhould not 
 only be fkilful in the proper Mould 
 and Seafon for fozving each Flow- 
 ery but he muft have Regard to 
 the Signs in the Heavens , to the 
 Wind, and the Weather. 1 r , 12. 
 Shade is an Enemy to moft Flowers. 5 
 Soil. Direttions for chufing a pro- 
 per Soil for a Flower-garden . 3, 4 
 Spring-flowers. Rapin treats firft 
 of the Spring-flowersy and among 
 thefe begins with the Primula ve- 
 ris; under which general Name , 
 may be comprehended not only the 
 Primrofe, but the Auricula, the 
 Cowflip, the Polyanthos, and all 
 of the fame Family. 14 
 
 Tours chief Toivn in the Province 
 
 of Tourain (called by Hiftorians f 
 from the Pleafantnefs of the Situ - 
 tuationy the Garden of France) 
 defcribed. 31, 3 x 
 
 Walks in a Parterre or Flower-gar- 
 den fhould be laid zvith Gravel. 
 
 13 
 
 Weeds fhould be deftroy d before they 
 have taken too deep Root. 13 
 Watering every Morning and Even- 
 ing is very necejfary in the Heat 
 of Summer. 52. 
 
 Winter with its cold Winds , Froft , 
 and SnoWy is very deftruttive to 
 FlowerSy unlefs the Beds bf co- 
 vered with Mattreffes. 59 
 
 Catalogue of Flowers treated of 
 in this Book. 
 
 Aconite. 59 
 
 Adonis Flozver. 25 
 
 iEthiopis, or Ethiopian Mullein. 3 5 
 African Marigold. 58 
 
 Amaranthus. 53 
 
 Amellus, or Attick Star. 54 
 Anemone, or Emony. do, 61 
 
 Afphodil, or King’s fpear. 33 
 Ealil. 30 
 
 Belvedere, or Rummer Cyprefs. 34 
 Bottle, commonly call'd Blue-bottle. 
 
 3 ° 
 
 Broom-rape. 49 
 
 Calamint. 3$ 
 
 Camomil. 34 
 
 Carnation, cr July-flovver. 47,48 
 Chelidonium, or Swailowwort. 15 
 Chryfanthes, or Great Daify. 41 
 Ciytie, or Heliotrope, or Sun flow- 
 
 er. 5 r 
 
 Colchicum, or Meadow-faffron. 18 
 Columbine. 34 
 
 Convolvulus. 30 
 
 Crocus. 59 
 
 Crown imperial. r9 
 
 Cyclamen, or Sow-bread. 14 
 Cyanus major, or Sweet Sultan. 34 
 
 Cytifus 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Cytifus, or Shrub-Trefoil. 34 
 
 Daify. 24 
 
 Day-Lilly, or Hemerocale. 48 
 
 Elecampane. 34 
 
 Eryngo, or Sea Holly. 52 
 
 Foxglove. 3 5 
 
 Fumaria bulbofa, or Hollow Root. 
 
 14 
 
 Granadilla, or Pallion Flower . 47 
 Germander. 49 
 
 Hellebore. 5 9 
 
 Hyacinth. 17 
 
 Iris, or Pdower^de-luce. 15, 24 
 Jonquil. 25 
 
 Laureola. 59 
 
 Larkheel. - 30 
 
 Lilly. 50 
 
 Linum, or Garden-flax. 41 
 
 Lychnis. 33 
 
 Mallow, or Hollihock. 41 
 
 Marjoram. 4 1 
 
 Marigold. 2 6 
 
 Marfagon, or Mountain-Lilly. 41 
 Matricaria, or Motherwort. 49 
 
 Mellilot. 4 1 
 
 Mezerion. 59 
 
 Milfoil. 41 
 
 Monkfhood. 30 
 
 Moth mullein. 30 
 
 Narciffus, or Daffodil. 1 5 
 
 Narciifus of Japan, or Guernfey- 
 Liliy. 54 
 
 Nafturcium. 
 
 Orchis, or Satyrion. 
 Panfy, orHeartfeafe 
 Poppy. 
 
 Peony. 
 
 Primrofe. 
 
 Ranunculus. 
 
 Reft-harrow. 
 
 34 
 49 
 
 5i 
 
 29 
 
 14 
 
 26 
 
 4i 
 
 3S> 3<5, 37, 38 
 
 Rofe. 
 
 Rofe-campion. 35 
 
 Saffron Flower , or Autumnal Cro- 
 , cus. 5 1 
 
 Sambucus Rofea, or Guelderland 
 Rofe. 27 
 
 Smilax. 51 
 
 Spikenard. 39 
 
 Spearmint. 25 
 
 Squil. 35 
 
 Stock- July- flower. 26 
 
 Thlafpis, or Candytuft. 49 
 
 T uberofe. 40 
 
 Tulip. 20, 2i, 22, 23 
 
 Violet. 16, 17 
 
 Wolf-bane. 3$ 
 
 Flowers without more f, aid of them 
 than that they blow at the Be- 
 ginning of the Summer . 28 
 
 — In the middle of the Sum- 
 mer. 47 
 
 At the latter end of Sum- 
 mer. w 53 
 
 I N D E X to the Second Book, which treats of 
 Foreft Trees, and luch as adorn a Garden, viz. 
 Flowering Trees, Sweet Shrubs , and Ever-greens. 
 
 A Lder-Tree grows heft by the — Fable of a Fifherman turn d 
 
 River Side. 83 into an Alder-Tree . 83 
 
 Afh-Trss 
 
INDEX. 
 
 A lli-Trec, from the Stubbornefs of 
 its Wood, compar'd to an Hero , 
 who will rather dye than yield . 
 
 84 
 
 Bay-Tree grows beft in moift Pla- 
 ces. 99 
 
 Allufion to the Table of 
 
 Daphne turn d into a Bay-Tree , 
 as the Story is at length in the 
 firfi Book of Ovid’s Metamorpho- 
 iis, 1 00 
 
 Beech-Tree. Rapin joins the Beech 
 with the Oak, as alfo the Cerrus 
 or Holme-Oak, the Efculus, the 
 Ilex, or Scarlet Oak, and all of 
 the fame Family, vjhich he fays 
 grow befi together. 74 
 
 Citron Tree. See Orange. 95 
 Chefnut-Tree. Of what Ufe. 78 
 Corn el- Tree delights in fiony ground 
 
 83 
 
 Conntrey Houfe Jhould lye open with 
 the Garden to the Eafi, but fbould 
 be (belter d from the North by a 
 Wood. 66 
 
 Countrey Life with its Pleafures 
 and Bufnefs in the Garden de- 
 feribed . 1 06, 107, 108 
 
 Cyprefs-Tree flsews well in any 
 Form, but left in a Pyramid . 88 
 ■— — Allufion to the Transforma- 
 tion 0/Cypariffus into a Cvprefs 
 Tret, as the Story is at length in 
 the ttnth Book of Ovid’s Meta- 
 morphofis. ' 89 
 
 Elm-Tree mightily becomes long 
 Walks. 77 
 
 Deficription of long Walks 
 adorn'd with El m - Trees a/Foun- 
 tambleau. 78 
 
 Fable of Orpheus drawing the Fo- 
 rsfi-Tress about Him by the 
 Charms of his Mufick. 79, 80 
 France faid to abound with all kind 
 of For eft- Tree t. 65,86 
 
 Rrr-Tree/stf / fpeedy Growth , from 
 
 Cuttings , efpecially , when plant - 
 ed on a Mountain. 84 
 
 Hazle-Tree grows in any Soil. 83 
 Hornbeam-Tree makes the neateft 
 ornatnental Hedges or Palifades 
 of any Tree that fheds its Leave 1 
 in Winter. 88 
 
 Jafmine, or Jeffamy-Trees, which 
 for their Tenderncjs are kept all 
 Winter in Hcufes , fhould not be 
 brought out too early in the Tear. 
 
 91 
 
 Juniper-Tree loves an open Plain . 
 
 _ 77 
 
 Lime-Trees, ^rLinden-Trees/^ 
 
 here to be Male and Female ever 
 fince Philemon and Baucis zvere 
 transform'd into two Limes by Ju- 
 piter. The Story is at length in the 
 eighth Book of Ovid Metamor- 
 
 pholis. 80 
 
 Lemon. See Orange-Tree. 96 
 
 Lilac-Tree dcfcrib’d. 101 
 
 Maple- Tree defcrib’d. 81 
 
 Myrtle-Tree defcrib'd 99 
 
 Why faid to afford a Shade 
 
 to Lovers in the Elyfian Fields * 
 
 100 
 
 Nurferies ought to be large for the 
 repairing the Lofs of old Trees. 87 
 Oaks rais'd from Acorns, tho of 
 flow Growth , become at laft, as 
 all other Trees from Seeds , fairer 
 than thofe that rife from Suckers 
 or Layers. 67 
 
 - - ■ Caution agatnft defiroying 
 old venerable Oaks with an Al- 
 lufion to the Story 0/Eryftchthon 
 puntfhed zvith Famine by Ceres, 
 at the Requefi of a Dryad or Wood- 
 Nymph , for daring to cut down 
 an old Oak in a Wood confecrated 
 to Ceres. The Story is in the eighth 
 Book of Ovid’r Metamorphofis. 
 
 7L 7* 
 
 The Fabk of the Giant Rhe- 
 cu$ 
 
INDEX. 
 
 cus transform* d into a large Oak. 
 
 Oleander a beautiful flowering Tree 
 but tender , muft be planted in a 
 Cafe , and plac'd amongft Citron- 
 Trees and Myttles. 99 
 
 Orange-Trees, Lemon-Trees, and 
 Citron-Trees, are the choicefl 
 Furniture of a Pleafure Garden. 
 
 93, &c. 
 
 — — — They are faid to bear Atlan- 
 tean Apples , in Allufion to the 
 Fable of the golden Fruity culti- 
 vated in the Hefperian Gardens 
 by Atlas. 93*94 
 
 . — And in Allufion to the Sto- 
 ry of Atlanta, who ftooping to 
 take up the golden Apples , thrown 
 on purpofe in her Way , loft the 
 Race to Hippomenes. 94 
 
 — Muft be kept in an Orange- 
 
 ry or Greenhoufe all the Winter 
 to fecure them from the Cold . 
 
 94 * 95 
 
 Paliurus, or Chriflhorn defcribed , 
 and faid to deferve a Place in the 
 Garden . 103 
 
 Phyllerea, when ithandfomely co- 
 vers a Wall is a great Ornament 
 to the Garden . 91 
 
 Pine-T ree, a very beautiful and ve- 
 ry hardy Ever-green, flourifhes 
 mo ft on a Mountain . 81 
 
 Poplar-Trees faid here to have been 
 once Heliades, or the Sifters of 
 Phaethon, who y overcome with 
 Grief for their Brother s Deaths 
 were transform'd into Poplars and 
 their Tears into Amber. The Sto- 
 ry is at length in the fecond Book 
 
 of Ovid’* Metamorphofis. 84, 8$ 
 Pyracantha muft be frequently jhorn . 
 
 *°5 
 
 Pomgranate-Tree defcribed. ict 
 '■■■ — ■ The Fable of a beautiful 
 Moor transform d into a Pomgta- 
 nate-Tree. 101 
 
 Quickbeam, Wild-afti, or Witchen- 
 T ree, grows beft in a ftony Ground . 
 
 83 
 
 Rhamnus faid to be what we now 
 call Whitethorn. 103 
 
 Trees fhould be planted at equal De- 
 fiances from one another . 69 
 
 • — Should withFences andDitch- 
 
 es be preferv d from Cattel. 70 
 - - — Pruning of Forefi Trees re- 
 commended . 70, 7* 
 
 Walks in Groves and Gardens fhould 
 be kept clean from Weeds. 105, 106 
 Wallnut-Tree grows beft in an 0- 
 pen Plain . t 7 j 
 
 Willow-Tree flourifhes moft by the 
 River Side. 
 
 — — ’—Fable of a Fifherman trans- 
 form'd into a Willow-Tree. 83, 84 
 Woodbine, or Honeyfudde-Tree „ 
 famous for the Fragrancy of its 
 Flowers. 103 
 
 Yew-Tree, or Eugh-Tree. Rapin 
 in Imitation of the Ancients , who 
 look'd upon the Eugh as poisnous 9 
 which is now one of the moft or- 
 namental Trees in cur Gardens , ad- 
 vifes to root it up. 
 
 But the cutting Ever-greens into all 
 manner of Forms , and the Ma- 
 nagement of variegated Trees and 
 Plants , was unknown to she Age 9 
 in which Rapin liv'd. 
 
 INDEX 
 
INDEX. 
 
 INDEX to the Third Book, which treats of 
 
 Water. 
 
 A Queduds after what manner, 
 and of what Materials to be 
 made . 117,118 
 
 ■ ■ ■ ■ Defcription of the famous A- 
 
 queducl of Arcueil, which con- 
 veys the Water in a Chanel of 
 htwen Stone fifteen Miles to Paris. 
 
 ill 
 
 — — Advice againfi too expenfive 
 Aqueducts . Ill 
 
 Brooks, Rivulets, Currents, or run- 
 ning Water, hozv to be guided 
 with Art . 1 3 1 , 132., 133 
 
 ■ — Table of Amymone trans- 
 form'd into a Rivulet . 133 
 
 —What Ornaments are proper 
 for adorning the Banks of Brooks 
 or Rivulets. 135, 136 
 
 Canals* Lakes, Ponds, or Pieces of 
 Water, the larger they are , the 
 more to be admir'd. 140, 141 
 
 « Defcription of a Canal , or 
 
 long Pond at Bavile, the Seat of 
 thePrefidentLzmoignon. 141,141 
 Cafcades, Catarads, or Waterfalls, 
 vjhether natural or artificial , are 
 very entertaining. 137 
 
 . Defcription of a famous Caf- 
 
 cade in the Garden at Ruel. 138 
 —Table of the Poetefs Sappho trans- 
 form'd into a Wat erf all. 138, 139 
 Fountains. How to be diverfified . 
 
 12.3, 114 
 
 — Defcription of Fountains 
 
 w\th (pouting Streams , or Jets 
 deau in the Gardens at Luxen- 
 burgh Palace . 1 2 5 
 
 Defcription of thofe at St. 
 
 Clou. 115 
 
 — Defcription of others at Ruel. 129 
 
 Table of biy las transform d 
 
 into a Jet d’ eau or fpouting 
 Stream. 126, 127, 128 
 
 —With what variety of Sports 
 fpouting Streams may be made to 
 play. 132 
 
 Fountainbleau in Raping time had 
 the greaiefl Command of Water of 
 any Palace in France, and there- 
 fore applauded with a high Enco- 
 mium , and recommended to the 
 Sight of ail who delight in Water- 
 Works, tho nozv it is outdone by 
 Verfails. 147 
 
 Grotts, orGrottos defcribed. r 30,1 3 z 
 Pipes from the Rel'ervoir to the 
 Fountains hovj to be manag’d . 
 
 123, 124, 125 
 Pump, or Machine for drawing up 
 Water fome times of great Ufe. 117 
 
 Defcription of the Pump at 
 
 Pontneuf or Newbridge in Paris, 
 reprtfenting the Woman of Sama- 
 ria drawing up Water for our Sa- 
 viour . 1 1 8 
 
 Refervoir, or Ciftern to furnifio Wa - 
 ter for the Garden, where to be 
 plac'd , and how to be kept from 
 leaking. 123,124 
 
 River, when in view from the 
 Houfe and Gardens, makes a glo- 
 rious Profpefi , and excels all the 
 Waterworks that can be contriv'd. 
 
 M* 
 
 Springs. 
 
IND 
 
 Springs, Whence they arife. 112,113 
 
 ■ Are fometimes fought for in 
 
 vain. j 15 
 
 • —'the Tokens by which they 
 
 may be found. 1 1 8 
 
 Water is fometimes medicinal, as at 
 Bourbon and Pugizin F’rance.i 14 
 
 e x. 
 
 Water which flows to the Garden 
 in a natural Stream is to be pre- 
 fer r d to that which is brought in 
 Aquedutls. 
 
 Water and Trees help to fet off one 
 another, and therefore jhould ne- 
 ver be afunder. 136, 143 
 
 I N D E X to the Fourth Book, which treats of 
 F kuit-T REES. 
 
 A Pple-Tree delights in a warm 
 moift Vale. 171 
 
 Apples lofe their Flavour in too z vet 
 a Boil. J 7 1 
 
 Almond-Tr zz fears no Weather . 174 
 Apricock, or Abricot-Tree diflikes 
 a hot Soil. 172. 
 
 Cherry-Tree was brought into Ita- 
 ly firfl by Lucullus. r 66 
 
 Com polls for enriching of Ground 
 how to be made. I 96 
 
 Comports for precipitating of Fruit 
 before their 'lime Jhould be Spa- 
 ringly us d. 175 
 
 Difeafes of Fruit-Trees hozv to be 
 remedied. 1 72, 1 95 
 
 Difpolition. There are four Forms , 
 in zvhich Fruit-Trees may be 
 difpofd ; they may either be 
 high Standards or Dwarf-Trees , 
 or have their Boughs wrought in- 
 to a Hedge , or be planted to a- 
 Wall. 173, 174 
 
 Fig-Tree requires a South Wall. 17 4 
 Filbeard fears no Weather. 174 
 
 Fruit-Trees zvhen overburthened , 
 Jhould be relieved by pulling off 
 fome of the Fruit. 17 6 
 
 — Shew to moft Advantage 
 when thofe of the fame kind are 
 
 plac'd together in one Row or Line. 
 
 182 
 
 Graffing. The various Ways of graff - 
 and inoculating defcrib'd . 167, 
 
 168 
 
 - - — What Graff's agree with 
 
 what Stocks. 169, 170 
 
 — - — — The Rules which the An- 
 cients left for graffing are full of 
 Miftakes. 170 
 
 Gardening, or cultivating of Fruits 
 Trees , recommended from the Ex- 
 ample of fome of the famous Men 
 of old time , and likewife from the 
 kxaniple of the late King 0/France. 
 
 J 54 > 1 55 > *56 
 
 Indurtry in Gardening recom- 
 mended from the Succefs zvhich at- 
 tended the Labour of a Tecman , 
 whofe Orchard abounded with 
 Fruit zvhen all in the Neighbour- 
 hood was loft. 157, 158 
 
 — — The Pleafure or Delight zvhich 
 an Orchard full of beautiful Fruit 
 yields to the Owner defcribed. 180, 
 
 1 8 r 
 
 — Moderns very much excel the 
 dents in Gardening , and therefore 
 rnuft be carefully confulted by eve- 
 ry one , who is ambitious of being 
 
 M after 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Mafier of good Fruit. 172, 173 
 Mulberry-Tree chufes a dryGround. 
 
 171 
 
 -- ■ Allufion co the Story of Pyra- 
 m us and Tliifbe, zvhich is at 
 length in the fourth Book of Ovid’s 
 Metamorphofis. 165 
 
 Neftorine defcribed. 184 
 
 Nurferies fhould be large , and fo 
 fituated as to enjoy the Benefit 
 of "the Sun. 160,161 
 
 Orchard fhould join to the Blower- 
 garden. 153 
 
 Peach-Tree delights in a warm 
 Sand . 17 1 
 
 Pear-Tree mufl not-be crowded. 17 1 
 Pears are of great Variety. 184 
 Plumb-Tree came firft from Da- 
 mafcus. 166 
 
 Quince-T ree will grow in a courfe 
 Soil . 172 
 
 Pruning is of great Advantage to 
 Bruit-Trees to make them bear 
 Plenty of fair Bruit. 186 
 
 ■ " ■■ ■ ■ Is to be learnt by Experi- 
 
 ence y and feeing a Skilful Garden- 
 
 er cut a Bruit-Tree well . 187 
 
 Olive-Tree was the Gift of Miner- 
 
 va. 166 
 
 Situation. What Situation fJjouldbe 
 chofe for an Orchard. 152 
 
 Soil. Fruit-Trees in general thrive 
 beft in a rich. Soil. 152 
 
 -• Some Soils are fo ftubborn as 
 not to be corrected . 173 
 
 Sun and Moon have a mighty In- 
 fluence upon Bruit- Trees. 1 6 1 , 162 
 Vine dej'erves a good Wall. 185 
 Wall-Fruit receives a great Advan- 
 tage from the Reflection of the 
 Rays of the Sun . 178 
 
 - ■ Directions' for building a Wall 
 for Bruit. 178 
 
 Fruit-Trees when planted againfl a 
 Wall fhould have their Branches 
 laid as horizontally as may be 
 either in the form of an open Ban 
 or the Backbone of a Fifh. 185: 
 
 Alcinoiis was the firft who 
 
 built a Wall for Fruity with a 
 long Hiftory of the Occafton. 188, 
 189, 190, 191, 192 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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