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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 S \ME MS. HARL., 4 J25. 



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 grets mervaile, 



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



