Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

by John Parkinson

Ipse habitare Indos tecum facis, haud petis Indos

I nunc, & tua me comminuisse refer.

Est liber Effigies, tuus hic qui pingitur hortus,

Digna manu facies hæc, facieque manus!

Vidi ego splendentem varigatis vndique gemmis.

Vna fuit Salomon, turba quid ergo fuit?

Vt vario splendent Pallacia regia sumptu,

Et Procerum turbis Atria tota nitent:

Tunc cum festa dies veniam dedit esse superbis

Quosque ficus texit, nunc tria rura tegunt: