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built, nor yet enclosed with a naked wall, but en¬
closed with terraces, leaded aloft, and fairly gar¬
nished on the three sides, and cloistered on the
inside with pillars, and not with arches below. As
for offices, let them stand at distance, with some
low galleries to pass from them to the palace
itself.
 

XLVI,
OF GARDENS.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed,
it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the
greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without
which buildings and palaces are but gross handi¬
works. And a man shall ever see that when ages
grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build
stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening
were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the
royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens
for all the months in the year, in which, severally,