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well formed of a man's height, your friend may perhaps 

 wander in gathering berries till he cannot recover himself without 

 your help." Thomas Hill gives two designs for mazes, though 

 he says they are not "for any necessary commodotie in a garden, 

 but rather" . . . " that who so listeth having such room in 

 their garden may place the one of them . . in that void place 

 . . . that may best be spared for the only purpose to sport in 

 them at times." Many people, on the mention of the word maze, 



MAZE. 



will at once think of the well-known example at Hampton Court, 

 which affords so much amusement to thousands of Londoners, 

 and holiday-makers ; but that was not laid out till a very much 

 later date, probably in the year 1700. 



Trees cut in fantastical shapes were frequently to be found 

 between the hedges, dotted about and arranged so as to form 

 vistas and walks. Bacon advises in "ordering of the ground 

 within the great hedge " . ... that " it be not too busy or 

 full of work," or, as we should say, not too elaborate, and he 



