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good idea of all their beauties in his metrical 

 "Life of Wolsey" 



" My Garden sweet, enclosed with walles strong, 

 Embanked with benches to sytt and take my rest 

 The knots, so enknotted, it cannot be exprest, 

 With Arbours and alyes so pleasant and so dulce." 



The Gardens possessed besides "Mounts" at the 

 corners, Fishponds, Dials, Columns, Topiary work, 

 and " galleries fayre both large and small to walk in 

 them when it liked me best." These "galleries" 

 were made of wooden trellis-work, covered with 

 Vines, Roses, or Honeysuckle. 



When Henry VIII. took Hampton Court from 

 his disgraced minister, Cardinal Wolsey, he intro- 

 duced into the Garden Statues and other foreign 

 novelties, traceable to Italian influence. About 

 this time Cardinal D'Este revived the taste for 

 statuary in Gardens and the custom of having 

 elaborate waterworks and fountains playing. Mon- 

 taigne mentions these fountains very fully in his 

 journal ; also from the " quaintly delightful pen 

 of John Evelyn " there are ample descriptions. 

 These novelties were quickly imitated by Francis I., 

 that lover of art, and later Henry, eager to have 

 every treasure his rival possessed, copied the pre- 

 vailing taste. 



At Nonsuch there were strange fountains " that 



