There was then also less expensive Grandure, but far more true State;
when _Consuls_, great Statesmen (and such as atchiev'd the most renown'd
Actions) sup'd in their _Gardens_; not under costly, gilded, and inlaid
Roofs, but the spreading _Platan_; and drank of the Chrystal Brook, and
by Temperance, and healthy Frugality, maintain'd the Glory of _Sallets_,
_Ah, quanta innocentiore victu_! with what Content and Satisfaction!
Nor, as we said, wanted there Variety; for so in the most blissful
Place, and innocent State of Nature, See how the first _Empress_ of the
World _Regal's_ her _Celestial_ Guest:
[123]_With sav'ry Fruit of Taste to please_
_True Appetite, ---- and brings_
_Whatever Earth's all-bearing Mother yields_
_----Fruit of all kinds, in Coat_
_Rough, or smooth-Rind, or bearded Husk, or Shell_.
_Heaps with unsparing Hand: For Drink the Grape_
_She crushes, inoffensive Moust, and Meaches_
_From many a Berry, and from sweet Kernel prest,_
_She temper'd dulcid Creams_.----
Then for the Board.
----_Rais'd of a grassy Turf_
_The Table was, and Mossy Seats had round;_
_And on the ample Meaths from Side to Side,_
_All Autumn pil'd: Ah Innocence,_
_Deserving Paradise_!
Thus, the _Hortulan_ Provision of the [124]_Golden Age_ fitted all
_Places_, _Times_ and _Persons_; and when Man is restor'd to that State
again, it will be as it was in the Beginning.
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