5'! A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



That who that list without to stond or go 

 Though he would all day prien to and fro 

 He should not see if there were any wighl within or no." 



We see this same idea of seclusion, as the essential feature of 



ARBOUR, FROM THK SAME MS. HARL., 4425. 



an arbour, in the fifteenth-century poem, " La Belle Dame Sans 

 Merci." ^ 



" And sett me down by-hyndc a traile 

 Fullc of icvis, to sec, a grcte mervaile, 



* R. F. Text Society, Vol. IV. 



