"THE CURIOUS KNOTTED GARDEN" 87 



watch his antics from their hiding-place in the box- 

 tree, or hedge. 



Such also was the garden at Belmont, Portia's 

 stately home, in which Lorenzo and Jessica, while 

 waiting for their mistress on that moonlight night 

 "when the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and 

 they did make no noise," voiced their ravishing duet, 

 "On Such a Night." 



Such also was the garden into which Romeo 

 leaped over the high wall to sing before Juliet's 

 window a song that in her opinion was far sweeter 

 than that of the nightingale that nightly sang in 

 the pomegranate-tree by her balcony. 



If, on the other hand, we wish to visualize 

 Perdita's garden that of a simple shepherdess 

 we must imagine a tiny cottage enclosure gay and 

 bright with blooms of many hues, arranged in simple 

 beds neatly bordered with box or thrift, but where 

 there are no terraces, forthrights, or ornamental 

 vases, urns or fountains. This little cottage garden 

 is the kind that brightened the approach to Anne 

 Hathaway' s house at Shottery and Shakespeare's 

 own dwelling at Stratford. 



This is a descendant, as we have seen, of the 

 little Garden of Delight, the Pleasance of the 

 Medieval castle. The simple cottage garden is the 



