Qui veut parangonner l’artifice a Nature
Et nos parcs a l’Eden indiscret il mesure.
Le pas de l’Elephant par le pas du ciron,
Et de l’Aigle le vol par cil du mouscheron.
TO
THE QVEENES
MOST EXCELLENT
MAIESTIE.
Madame,
Knowing your Maiestie so much delighted with all the faire Flowers of a Garden, and furnished with them as farre beyond others, as you are eminent before them; this my Worke of a Garden, long before this intended to be published, and but now only finished, seemed as it were destined, to bee first offered into your Highnesse hands, as of right challenging the proprietie of Patronage from all others. Accept, I beseech your Maiestie, this speaking Garden, that may informe you in all the particulars of your store, as well as wants, when you cannot see any of them fresh vpon the ground: and it shall further encourage him to accomplish the remainder; who, in praying that your Highnesse may enioy the heauenly Paradise, after the many yeares fruition of this earthly, submitteth to be