40 BACON'S PLAN OF A GARDEN 

 EXERCISES 



1. Draw a general plan of the Garden, in proportion to the 

 given dimensions. 



2. Draw to scale (say ^ inch to the foot) a careful plan of the 

 hedge of the Main Garden, to the length of, say, twelve feet. 



3. Who else (in prose or verse) have written about gardens ? 



4. Collect a list of obsolete or archaic terms and phrases 

 occurring in the text ; and give their modern equivalents. 



5. Characterize, and illustrate (by quotation), the style of 

 Bacon as shown in his Essay ' Of Gardens '. 



6. Compare Bacon's favourite flowers with those of Shake- 

 speare (as given in The Winter's Tale, Hamlet, &c.). 



GARDEN VERSES BY ANDREW MARVELL 

 I. THE FAWN IN THE GARDEN 



I HAVE a garden of my own, 

 But so with roses overgrown 

 And lilies that you would it guess 

 To be a little wilderness. 



All the springtime of the year 

 My fawn loved only to be here. 



Among the bed of lilies I 



Have sought it oft where it should lie, 



Yet could not till itself would rise 



Find it, although before mine eyes. 10 



Upon the roses it would feed, 

 Until its lips even seemed to bleed; 

 And then to me 'twould boldly trip, 

 And print those roses on my lip. 



