<s>CHAP. IV.</s>

 <s><emph type="italics"/>With what Paintings, Plants, and Statues, it is proper to adorn the Pave<lb/>
ments, Porticoes, Apartments and Gardens of a private Hou&longs;e.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>There are &longs;ome other Ornaments ex<lb/>
tremely proper for a private Hou&longs;e, by <lb/>
no means to be omitted in this Place. </s> <s>The <lb/>
Ancients &longs;tained the Pavements of their Porti<lb/>
coes with Labyrinths, both &longs;quare and circular, <lb/>
in which the Boys u&longs;ed to exerci&longs;e them&longs;elves. <lb/>
</s> <s>I have my&longs;elf &longs;een Pavements &longs;tained in Imita<lb/>
tion of the Bell-flower-weed, with its Branches <lb/>
twining about very beautifully. </s> <s>Other have <lb/>
paved their Chambers with a Sort of <emph type="italics"/>Mo&longs;aic<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
Work of Marble, in Imitation of Carpets, others <lb/>
in Imitation of Garlands and Branches of Trees. <lb/>
</s> <s>It was a very ingenious Invention of <emph type="italics"/>O&longs;is,<emph.end type="italics"/> who <lb/>
&longs;trewed the Pavement at <emph type="italics"/>Pergamus<emph.end type="italics"/> with inlaid <lb/>
Work, in Imitation of the Fragments that lie <lb/>
&longs;cattered about after Meals; an Ornament not <lb/>
ill &longs;uited to a Parlour. <emph type="italics"/>Agrippa<emph.end type="italics"/> was very right <lb/>
in making his Floors of common baked Earth. <lb/>
</s> <s>I, for my Part, hate every Thing that &longs;avours <lb/>
of Luxury or Profu&longs;ion, and am be&longs;t plea&longs;ed <lb/>
with tho&longs;e Ornaments which ari&longs;e principally <lb/>
from the Ingenuity and Beauty of the Contri<lb/>
vance. </s> <s>Upon &longs;ide Walls no Sort of Painting <lb/>
&longs;hews hand&longs;omer than the Repre&longs;entation of <lb/>
Columns in Architecture. <emph type="italics"/>Titius Cæ&longs;ar<emph.end type="italics"/> adorn<lb/>
ed the Walls of the Portico in which he u&longs;ed <lb/>
to walk, with a Sort of <emph type="italics"/>Ph&oelig;nician<emph.end type="italics"/> Stone &longs;o fine<lb/>
ly poli&longs;hed, that it returned the Reflection of <lb/>
all the Objects like a Looking-gla&longs;s. <emph type="italics"/>Antoninus <lb/>
Caracalla,<emph.end type="italics"/> the Emperor, painted his Portico <lb/>
with the memorable Exploits and Triumphs of <lb/>
his Father. <emph type="italics"/>Severus<emph.end type="italics"/> did the &longs;ame; but <emph type="italics"/>Aga<lb/>
thocles<emph.end type="italics"/> painted not his Father's Actions, but his <lb/>
own. </s> <s>Among the <emph type="italics"/>Per&longs;ians,<emph.end type="italics"/> according to their <lb/>
ancient Laws, it was not permitted to paint or <lb/>
carve any other Story, but of the wild Bea&longs;ts <lb/>
&longs;lain by their Kings. </s> <s>It is certain, the brave <lb/>
and memorable Actions of one's Countrymen, <lb/>
and their Effigics, are Ornaments extremely <lb/>
&longs;uitable both to Porticoes and Halls. <emph type="italics"/>Caius <lb/>
Cæ&longs;ar<emph.end type="italics"/> embelli&longs;hed his Portico with the Statues <lb/>
of all tho&longs;e that had enlarged the Confines of <lb/>
the Republick, and he gained a general Ap<lb/>
probation by &longs;o doing. </s> <s>I am as much plea&longs;ed <lb/>
as any body with this Kind of Ornaments; but <lb/>
yet I would not have the Wall too much <lb/>
crowded with Statues or Hi&longs;tory Pieces. </s> <s>We <lb/>
may find by Gems, and e&longs;pecially by Pearls, <lb/>
that if they are &longs;et too thick together, they lo&longs;e <lb/>
their Beauty. </s> <s>For this Rea&longs;on, in &longs;ome of the <lb/>
mo&longs;t convenient and mo&longs;t con&longs;picuous Parts of <lb/>
the Wall, I am for making hand&longs;ome Pannels <lb/>
of Stone, in which we may place either Sta<lb/>
tues, or Pictures; &longs;uch as <emph type="italics"/>Pompey<emph.end type="italics"/> had carried <lb/>
along in his Triumph; Repre&longs;enting his Ex<lb/>
ploits both by Sea and Land in Picture. </s> <s>Or <lb/>
rather, I am for having Pictures of &longs;uch Ficti<lb/>
ons of the Poets, as tend to the Promotion of <lb/>
good Manners; &longs;uch as that of <emph type="italics"/>Dædalus,<emph.end type="italics"/> who <lb/>
painted the Gates of <emph type="italics"/>Cumæ<emph.end type="italics"/> with the Repre<lb/>
&longs;entation of <emph type="italics"/>Icarus<emph.end type="italics"/> flying. </s> <s>And as the Sub<lb/>
jects both of Poetry and Painting are various, <lb/>
&longs;ome expre&longs;&longs;ing the memorable Actions of great <lb/>
Men; others Repre&longs;enting the Manners of pri<lb/>
vate Per&longs;ons; others de&longs;cribing the Life of <lb/>
Ru&longs;ticks: The former, as the mo&longs;t Maje&longs;tick, <lb/>
&longs;hould be applied to publick Works, and the <lb/>
Buildings of Princes; and the latter, as the <lb/>
more chearful, &longs;hould be &longs;et apart for Plea&longs;ure<lb/>
hou&longs;es and Gardens. </s> <s>Our Minds are delight<lb/>
ed in a particular Manner with the Pictures of <lb/>
plea&longs;ant Landskips, of Havens, of Fi&longs;hing, <lb/>
Hunting, Swimming, Country Sports, of flowery <lb/>
Fields and thick Groves. </s> <s>Neither is it foreign <lb/>
to our pre&longs;ent Purpo&longs;e ju&longs;t to mention, that <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Octavianus,<emph.end type="italics"/> the Emperor, adorned his Palace <lb/>
with the huge Bones of &longs;ome extraordinary <lb/>
Animals. </s> <s>The Ancients u&longs;ed to dre&longs;s the <lb/>
Walls of their Grottoes and Caverns with all <lb/>
Manner of rough Work, with little Chips of <lb/>
Pumice, or &longs;oft <emph type="italics"/>Tyburtine<emph.end type="italics"/> Stone, which <emph type="italics"/>Ovid<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
calls the living Pumice; and &longs;ome I have known <lb/>
dawb them over with green Wax, in Imitati<lb/>
on of the mo&longs;&longs;y Slime which we always &longs;ee in <lb/>
moi&longs;t Grottoes. </s> <s>I was extremely plea&longs;ed with <lb/>
an artificial Grotto which I have &longs;een of this <lb/>
Sort, with a clear Spring of Water falling from <lb/>
it; the Walls were compo&longs;ed of various Sorts of <lb/>
Sea-&longs;hells, lying roughly together, &longs;ome rever&longs;<lb/>
ed, &longs;ome with their Mouths outwards, their <lb/>
Colours being &longs;o artfully blended as to form a <lb/>
very beautiful Variety. </s> <s>In that Apartment <lb/>
which is peculiar to the Ma&longs;ter of the Family <lb/>
and his Wife, we &longs;hould take Care that nothing