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The ituation of a Garden of pleaure, with the nature of oyles, and how to amend the defects that are in many orts of ituations and grounds. HE euerall ituations of mens dwellings, are for the mot part vnauoideable and vnremoueable; for mot men cannot appoint forth uch a manner of ituation for their dwelling, as is mot fit to auoide all the inconueniences of winde and weather, but mut bee content with uch as the place will afford them; yet all men doe well know, that ome ituations are more excellent than others: according therfore to the euerall ituation of mens dwellings, o are the ituations of their gardens alo for the mot part. And although diuers doe diuerly preferre their owne euerall places which they haue chofen, or wherein they dwell; As ome thoe places that are neare vnto a riuer or brooke to be bet for the pleaantnee of the water, the eae of tranportation of themelues, their friends and goods, as alo for the fertility of the oyle, which is eldome bad neare vnto a riuers ide; And others extoll the ide or top of an hill, bee it mall or great, for the propects ake; And againe, ome the plaine or champian ground, for the euen leuell thereof: euery one of which, as they haue their commodities accompanying them, o haue they alo their dicommodities belonging vnto them, according to the Latine Prouerbe, Omne commodum fert uum incommodum. Yet to hew you for euerie of thee ituations which is the fittet place to plant your garden in, and how to defend it from the iniuries of the cold windes and frots that may annoy it, will, I hope, be well accepted. And firt, for the water ide, I uppoe the North ide of the water to be the bet ide for your garden, that it may haue the comfort of the South Sunne to lye vpon it and face it, and the dwelling houe to bee aboue it, to defend the cold windes and frots both from your herbes, and flowers, and early fruits. And fo likewie I iudge for the hill ide, that it may lye full open to the South Sunne, and the houe aboue it, both for the comfort the ground hall receiue of the water and raine decending into it, and of defence from winter and colds. Now for the plaine leuell ground, the buildings of the houe hould be on the North ide of the garden, that o they might bee a defence of much ufficiency to afeguard it from many injurious cold nights and dayes, which ele might poyle the pride thereof in the bud. But becaue euery one cannot o appoint his dwelling, as I here appoint the fittet place for it to be, euery ones pleaure thereof hall be according to the ite, cot, and endeauours they betow, to caue it come nearet to this proportion, by uch helpes of bricke or tone wals to defend it, or by the helpe of high growne and well pread trees, planted on the North ide thereof, to keepe it the warmer. And euery of thee three ituations, hauing the fairet buildings of the houe facing the garden in this manner before pecified, beides the benefit of helter it hall haue from them, the buildings and roomes abutting thereon, hall haue reciprocally the beautifull propect into it, and haue both ight and ent of whatoeuer is excellent, and worthy to giue content out from it, which is one of the greatet pleaures a garden can yeeld his Mater. Now hauing hewed you the bet place where this your