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Chap. 3. phers dispute of Tranquility, of Constancy, of Life, and Death. See Lipsius the true end and use of Gardens; it is rest, secession, meditation, reading, writing; and yet all these by way of recreation only, and divertisement. As Painters who by long poring have wearied and dimm'd their sight, call it off to certain glasses and green objects, thereby to quicken and refresh it; so do we the Mind when it either straggles or is tyred. And why should I conceal my Custome from you? Do you see that Arbour set out with Topiary work? 'Tis the place I have consecrated to the Muses. It is my School of Wisdom. There I either satisfie my Mind with serious and retir'd reading, or improve it with the Seeds of profitable Meditation? And as arms are lay'd up in a Magazene: So do I from them, store up precepts in my Mind, which are alwayes ready by me, against every battery and impression of Fortune. As oft as I Rh