64 .-1 HISTORY OF GAR HEX IXC IX KXGLANn. 



captivity, his solace was writiiifjj verse, and he has left us this- 

 most charming picture of the garden beneath his prison window: 



" Now was there made, fast by the Towris wall, 

 A garden fair ; — and in the corners set 

 An arbour i^reen, with wandis long and small 

 Railed about, and so with trees set 

 Was all the place, and Hawthorne hedges knet. 

 That lyf was none walking there forbye 

 That might within scarce any wight espy. 



" So thick the boughcs and the leaves green 

 Beshaded all the alle\s that there were. 

 And mids of every arbour might be seen 

 The sharpe greene sweet Juniper 

 Growing so fair with branches here and there, 

 That as it seemed to a lyf without, 

 The boughcs spread the arbour all about. , 



" And on the smalle greene twistis sat 

 The little sweet nightingale, and sung 

 So loud and clear, the hymnis consecrat 

 Of loris use, now soft, now lowd, among. 

 That all the gardens and the wallis rung 

 Right of their song." 



