56 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



That who that list without to stond or go 

 Though he would all day prien to and fro 

 He should not see if there were any wight within or no." 



We see this same idea" of seclusion, as the essential feature of 



ARBOUR, FROM THE SAME MS. HARL., 4425. 



an arbour, in the fifteenth-century poem, " La Belle Dame Sans 

 Merci." * 



" And sett me down by-hynde a traile 

 Fulle of levis, to see, a grete mervaile, 



* E. E. Text Society, Vol. IV. 



