142 ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



at each end. In connection with every Elizabethan 

 house a terrace was the rule rather than the exception. 

 Its advantages are charmingly described in the account 

 of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kenilworth. 



The view The relation between the garden and the terrace is 



terrace. also well pointed out by Sir Henry Wotton. " First, I 

 must note a certain contrariety .Between building and 

 gardening; for as Fabricks should be regular so Gar- 

 dens should be irregular, or at least cast into a very wild 

 Regularity. To exemplifie my conceit, I have seen a 

 Garden, for the manner perchance incomparable, into 

 which the first Access was a high Walk like a Tarrace, 

 from whence might be taken a general view of the 

 whole Plot below, but rather in a delightful confusion, 

 than with any plain distinction of the pieces. From this 

 the Beholder, descending many steps, was afterwards con- 

 veyed again by several mountings and valings to various 

 entertainments and of his scent and sight, which I shall 

 not need to describe, for that were poetical, let me only 

 note this, that every one of these diversities was as if he 

 had been magically transported into a new Garden." 

 walks. As an opportunity for taking exercise was one of the 



objects in having a garden, the enclosure was intersected 

 by numerous foot-paths. At Hampton Court Queen 

 Elizabeth used " to catche her heat in the colde morn- 

 ings with a brisk walk," though, at times when conscious 

 of observation, " she was the very image of majesty and 



