ies,
castles, towns,

[3244] "Visere saepe amnes nitidos, per amaenaque Tempe,
Et placidas summis sectari in montibus auras."

"To see the pleasant fields, the crystal fountains,
And take the gentle air amongst the mountains."

[3245]To walk amongst orchards, gardens, bowers, mounts, and arbours,
artificial wildernesses, green thickets, arches, groves, lawns, rivulets,
fountains, and such like pleasant places, like that Antiochian Daphne,
brooks, pools, fishponds, between wood and water, in a fair meadow, by a
river side, [3246]_ubi variae, avium cantationes, florum colores, pratorum
frutices_, &c. to disport in some pleasant plain, park, run up a steep hill
sometimes, or sit in a shady seat, must needs be a delectable recreation.
_Hortus principis et domus ad delectationem facia, cum sylva, monte et
piscina, vulgo la montagna_: the prince's garden at Ferrara [3247]Schottus
highly magnifies, with the groves, mountains, ponds, for a delectable
prospect, he was much affected with it: a Persian paradise, or pleasant
park, could not be more delectable in his sight. St. Bernard, in the
description of his monastery, is almost ravished with the pleasures of it.
"A sick [3248]man" (saith he) "sits upon a green bank, and when the
dog-star parcheth the plains, and dries up rivers, he lies in a shady
bower, _Fronde sub arborea ferventia temperat astra_, and feeds his eyes
with variety of objects, herbs, trees, to comfort his misery, he receives
many delightsome smells, and fills his ears with that sweet and various
harmony of birds: good God" (saith he), "what a company of pleasures hast
thou made for man!" He that should be admitted on a sudden to the sight of
such a palace as that of Escurial in Spain, or to that which the Moors
built at Granada, Fontainebleau in France, the Turk's gardens in his
seraglio, wherein all manner of birds and beasts are kept for pleasure;
wolves, bears, lynxes, tigers, lions, elephants, &c., or upon the banks of
that Thracian Bosphorus: the pope's Belvedere in Rome, [3249]as pleasing as
those _horti pensiles_ in Babylon, or that Indian king's delightsome garden
in [3250]Aelian; or [3251]those famous gardens of the Lord Cantelow in
France, could, not choose, though he were never so ill paid, but be much
recreated for the time; or many of our noblemen's gardens at home. To take
a boat in a pleasant evening, and with music [3252]to row upon the waters,
which Plutarch so much app