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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Tennis- 

 courts. 



Other play- 

 grounds. 



The Cowry Houfetfifts Garden. 



Tennis was still a favourite amusement, and the 

 tennis-court an adjunct to the garden. It was when 

 Queen Elizabeth was seated in the gallery of a tennis- 

 court watching a game between the Duke of Norfolk 

 and the Earl of Leicester that " my Lord Robert being 

 verie hotte and swettinge, took the Queens napken oute 

 of her hande, and wyped his .face, which the Duke 

 seeinge, saide that he was too sawsie, and swore that 

 he wolde laye his racket upon his face. Hereupon 

 rose a great treble, and the Queen offended sore with 

 the Duke." It will be remembered that Sir Philip 

 Sidney's famous quarrel with the Earl of Oxford also 

 took place in a tennis-court. 



Greens for archery and bowling 

 continued to be laid out in con- 

 nection with the garden. Mazes 

 afforded a form of amusement 

 not too childish for grown people, 

 who retained a fondness for all 

 such quips and cranks. 



In contrast to the prim regu- 

 larity of the parterre a few gardens 

 contained a " wilderness," which 

 was a more ordinary feature at a 

 later period. Bacon's account of 

 the wilderness in his essay on gardens shows that 

 it was then a piece of enclosed ground, comprising 



