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steps up to it, and some fine pavement about it doth well. As for the other kind of fountain, which we may call a bathing-pool, it may admit much curiosity and beauty, wherewith we will not trouble ourselves :- -as that the bottom be finely paved, and with images; the sides likewise; and withal embellished with coloured glass, and such things of lustre; encompassed also with fine rails of low stature. But the main point is the same which we mentioned in the former kind of fountain, which is, that the water be in perpetual motion, fed by a water higher than the pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged away under ground by some equality of bores, that it stay little. And for fine devices of arching water without spilling, and making it rise in several forms, (of feathers, drinking-glasses, canopies, and the like,) they be pretty things to look on, but nothing to health and sweetness.

For the health, which was the third part of our plot, I wish it to be framed, as much as may be, to a natural wildness. Trees I would have none in it, but some thickets, made only of sweet-briar and honey-suckle, and some wild vine amongst, and the ground set with violets, strawberries and primroses for these are sweet, and prosper in the shade. And these to be in the heath, here and there, not in any order. I like also little heaps, in

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the nature of mole-hills, (such as are in wild heaths) to be set, some with wild thyme, some with pink, some with germander, that gives a good flower to the eye; some with periwinkle, some with violets, some with strawberries, some with cowslips, some with daisies, some with red roses, some with lilium convallium, some with sweetwilliams, red; some with bear's-foot, and the like low flowers, being withal sweet and sightly. Part of which heaps, to be with standards of little bushes, pricked upon their top, and part without; the standards to be roses, juniper, holly, bear-berries; but here and there, (because of the smell of their blossom) red currants, gooseberries, rosemary, bays, sweet-briar, and such like. But these standards to be kept with cutting, that they grow not out of

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For the side-grounds, you are to fit them with variety of alleys, private, to give a full shade; some of them, wheresoever the sun be. You are to frame some of them likewise for shelter, that when the wind blows sharp, you may walk as in a gallery. And those alleys must be likewise hedged at both ends, to keep out the wind; and these closer alleys must be ever finely gravelled, and no grass, because of going wet. In many of these alleys likewise, you are to set fruit-trees of all sorts; as well upon the walls, as in ranges. And this

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would be generally observed, that the borders wherein you plant your fruit-trees, be fair, and large and low, and not steep, and set with fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they deceive the trees. At the end of both the side-grounds, I would have a mount of some pretty height, leaving the wall of the enclosure breast-high, to look abroad into the fields.

For the main Garden, I do not deny, but there should be some fair alleys ranged on both sides with fruit-trees, and some pretty tufts of fruit-trees, and arbours with seats, set in some decent order; but these to be by no means set too thick; but to leave the main Garden so as it be not close, but the air open and free: for as for shade, I would have you rest upon the alleys of the side-grounds, there to walk, if you be disposed, in the heat of the year or day but to make account, that the main Garden is for the more temperate parts of the year; and in the heat of summer, for the morning, and the evening, or overcast days.

For aviaries, I like them not, except they be of that largeness, as they may be turfed, and have living plants and bushes set in them, that the birds may have more scope, and natural nestling, and that no foulness appear in the floor of the aviary. So I have made a platform of a princely Garden, partly by precept, partly by drawing, not a model,

but some general lines of it, and in this I have spared no cost. But it is nothing for great princes, that for the most part, taking advice with workmen, with no less cost, set their things together, and sometimes add statues and such things, for state and magnificence, but nothing to the true pleasure of a Garden.

Of Negotiating.

It is generally better to deal by speech than by

letter; and by the mediation of a third, than by a man's self. Letters are good, when a man would draw an answer by letter back again: or when it may serve for a man's justification afterwards to produce his own letter, or where it may be danger to be interrupted or heard by pieces. To deal in person is good, when a man's face breedeth regard, as commonly with inferiors; or in tender cases, where a man's eye, upon the countenance of him with whom he speaketh, may give him a direction how far to go and generally where a man will reserve to himself liberty either to disavow, or to expound. In choice of instruments, it is better to choose men of a plainer sort, that are like to do that is committed to them, and to report back again faithfully the success, than those that are cunning

to contrive out of other men's business somewhat to grace themselves, and will help the matter in report for satisfaction sake. Use also such persons as affect the business wherein they are employed, for that quickeneth much; and such as are fit for the matter:-as bold men for expostulation; fairspoken men for persuasion; crafty men for inquiry and observation; froward and absurd men for business that doth not well bear out itself. Use also such as have been lucky, and prevailed before in things wherein you have employed them; for that breeds confidence, and they will strive to maintain their prescription. It is better to sound a person with whom one deals afar off, than to fall upon the point at first; except you mean to surprize him by some short question. It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be. If a man deal with another upon conditions, the start of the first performance is all, which a man cannot reasonably demand, except either the nature of the thing be such which must go before; or else a man can persuade the other party that he shall still need him in some other thing; or else that he be counted the honester man. All practice is to discover, or to work: men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares, and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done, and cannot find an apt pretext.

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