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134 The radiant Summer far exceeds the gladsome Spring in her garden beauties; some few of them—alas! that they are few—we must gossip about presently: meanwhile we cannot do better than read, at the same time fancy, this very fanciful description of Panglorie's Garden, by Giles Fletcher; 1610.

The sculptor of old proposed to make a statue of Mount Athos; this landscape-gardening Poet, spreading his sleeping