FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES. 



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of his day, seen through his poet's eye. The garden, " ful of 

 braunches grene," in which Emely was walking when she was 

 watched by the imprisoned knights, was such as might be seen 

 beneath many a feudal castle wall. 



GARDEN, FROM FLEMISH MS. OF THE ROMAN DE LA ROSE, LATE FIFTEENTH 

 CENTURY. HARL. 4425. 



" The grete tour, that was so thikke and strong, 

 Which of the castel was the cheef dongeoun 



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Was evene joynant to the gardyn wal." 



We have in history a counterpart of this garden of romance, that 

 of Windsor Castle. When James I. of Scotland was there, in 



