To subsist in lasting Monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and prædicament of _Chymera's_, was large satisfaction unto old expectations and made one part of their _Elyziums_. But all this is nothing in the Metaphysicks of true belief. To live indeed is to be again our selves, which being not only an hope but an evidence in noble beleevers; 'Tis all one to lie in St. _Innocents_ Church-yard,[105] as in the Sands of _Ægypt_: Ready to be any thing, in the extasie of being ever, and as content with six foot as the Moles of _Adrianus_.[106] [105] _In_ Paris _where bodies soon consume._ [106] _A stately_ Mausoleum _or sepulchral pyle built by_ Adrianus _in_ Rome, _where now standeth the Castle of_ St. Angelo. Lucan ----_Tabesne cadavera solvat An rogus haud refert._---- THE GARDEN OF CYRUS OR, THE QUINCUNCIAL, LOZENGE OR NET-WORK PLANTATIONS OF THE ANCIENTS, ARTIFICIALLY NATURALLY, MYSTICALLY CONSIDERED BY THOMAS BROWN D. OF PHYSICK Printed in the Year, 1658 [Illustration: _Quid Quincunce speciosius, qui, in quam cunq; partem spectaueris, rectus est. Quintilian;_//] THE GARDEN OF CYRUS Or, The Quincuncial, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically considered. CHAPTER I That _Vulcan_ gave arrows unto _Apollo_ and _Diana_ the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may passe for no blinde apprehension of the Creation of the Sunne and Moon, in the work of the fourth day; When the diffused light contracted into Orbes, and shooting rayes, of those Luminaries. Plainer Descriptions there are from Pagan pens, of the creatures of the fourth day; While the divine Philosopher[107] unhappily omitteth the noblest part of the third; And _Ovid_ (whom many conceive to have borrowed his description from _Moses_) coldly deserting the remarkable account of the text, in three words,[108] describeth this work of the third day; the vegetable creation, and first ornamental Scene of nature; the primitive food of animals, and first story of Physick, in Dietetical conservation. [107] Plato in Timæo. [108] fronde tegi silvas. For though Physick may pleade high, from the medicall act of God, in casting so deep a sleep upon our first Parent; And Chirurgery[109] finde its whole art, in that one passage concerning the Rib of _Adam_, yet is there no rivality with Garden contrivance and Herbery. For if Paradise were planted the third day of the Creation, as wiser Divinity concludeth, the Nativity thereof was too early for Horoscopie; Gardens were before Gardiners, and but some hours after the earth.