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Chap. 2.
of Conſtancy.
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rarity and strangeness? Insomuch as within the narrow limits of this one place, Nature seems to have enclosed all those excellencies, which either this of ours, or that other World is able to boast off.


Chap. II.

The praise of Gardens in general. Delight taken in them is ancient, and from Nature. Kings and other excellent persons addicted to them. The pleasures of them.

And truly Langius this your divertisment is a praise-worthy and commendable one; a pleasure whereunto (if I am not deceived) the more excellent and ingenuous persons are by Nature it self inclin'd. I am rather induc'd to believe this; inasmuch

as