58 THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN 



other summer-houses even with the cloisters, which 

 are paved with stone, and designed for. walks of 

 shade, there being none other in the whole parterre. 

 Over these two cloisters are two terraces covered 

 with lead and fenced with balustrades; and the 

 passage into these airy walks is out of the two sum- 

 mer-houses at the end of the first terrace walk. The 

 cloister facing the south is covered with vines and 

 would have been proper for an orange-house, and 

 the other for myrtles or other more common greens, 

 and had, I doubt not, been cast for that purpose, if 

 this piece of gardening had been then in as much 

 vogue as it is now. 



"From the middle of this parterre is a descent by 

 many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies 

 between them, covered with lead and flat, into the 

 lower garden, which is all fruit-trees ranged about 

 the several quarters of a wilderness which is very 

 shady; the walks here are all green, the grotto em- 

 bellished with figures of shell rock-work, fountains 

 and water-works. If the hill had not ended with the 

 lower garden, and the wall were not bounded by a 

 common way that goes through the park, they might 

 have added a third quarter of all greens; but this 

 want is supplied by a garden on the other side of 



