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342 The sir st Book^os Lib.r.
judgement, that your work become not ridiculous to
thebeholders eye, as wel! for true observation of the
distance,as absurdity of accident : that is,thougk your
Landtskip be good and true in general, yet some par-
ticular errou rover ssips your judgement either in mi-
flaking, or not observing the time and season of the
year, the true shadow of your work with the light os
the Sun, the bending of Trees in winds and cenipests,
the natural courseof Rivers,and such like.
To settle therefore your judgement in these and
the like, I wisbycu first to imitate the abstrast or la-
bour of every moneth. Not as afoolish Painter under-
taking thelike,and beginning with January,drew him
sitting in a wicker chair like an old man>with three or
four night-Caps on his head by the fire, his ssip (hoes
by, and one foot upon the tongs within the chimny,
and without doors Hay-cocks, green Trees, and as if
it had been in the naidstof July, Wherefore I say such
a Winter-piece should be graced and beautified with
all manner of works and exercises of Winter, as foot-
Ball, felling os Wood, Aiding upon the Ice5Batfowling
by night, hunting the Bears, or Fox in the Snow, ma-
king your Trees every where bare or laden with snow,
the Earth without ssowers, tTffsl cattel, the aire thick
with clouds, Rivers and Lakes frozen, which you may
fhew by Carts pasling over, or Boyes playing upon the
same,and a thousand the like. The same method ob-
serve in the other seasons.
If you draw your Landtskip according to your
invention, you shall please very well, if you fhew in
the same, the fair side of some goodly City, Haven,
Forrest, flately House with Gardens 5 I ever took de-
light in those Pieces that shewed to the life a Country
Village, Fair, or Marktt-tBergamascM Cookery, Mor~
rice dancing, Peasants together by the eares, and the
like.
For your Tarergas or needlesTe graces, you may
set forth the same with Farm-houses, Water-mills.
Pilgrims
judgement, that your work become not ridiculous to
thebeholders eye, as wel! for true observation of the
distance,as absurdity of accident : that is,thougk your
Landtskip be good and true in general, yet some par-
ticular errou rover ssips your judgement either in mi-
flaking, or not observing the time and season of the
year, the true shadow of your work with the light os
the Sun, the bending of Trees in winds and cenipests,
the natural courseof Rivers,and such like.
To settle therefore your judgement in these and
the like, I wisbycu first to imitate the abstrast or la-
bour of every moneth. Not as afoolish Painter under-
taking thelike,and beginning with January,drew him
sitting in a wicker chair like an old man>with three or
four night-Caps on his head by the fire, his ssip (hoes
by, and one foot upon the tongs within the chimny,
and without doors Hay-cocks, green Trees, and as if
it had been in the naidstof July, Wherefore I say such
a Winter-piece should be graced and beautified with
all manner of works and exercises of Winter, as foot-
Ball, felling os Wood, Aiding upon the Ice5Batfowling
by night, hunting the Bears, or Fox in the Snow, ma-
king your Trees every where bare or laden with snow,
the Earth without ssowers, tTffsl cattel, the aire thick
with clouds, Rivers and Lakes frozen, which you may
fhew by Carts pasling over, or Boyes playing upon the
same,and a thousand the like. The same method ob-
serve in the other seasons.
If you draw your Landtskip according to your
invention, you shall please very well, if you fhew in
the same, the fair side of some goodly City, Haven,
Forrest, flately House with Gardens 5 I ever took de-
light in those Pieces that shewed to the life a Country
Village, Fair, or Marktt-tBergamascM Cookery, Mor~
rice dancing, Peasants together by the eares, and the
like.
For your Tarergas or needlesTe graces, you may
set forth the same with Farm-houses, Water-mills.
Pilgrims