THE GARDEN 

 GLORIOUS 



THE GARDEN GLORIOUS 



The title is taken from a poem of the early 

 part of the sixteenth century, which describes 

 an English garden of that period. Let us go 

 with the poet into his "garden glorious." 



"Then we went to the garden glorious, 

 Like to a place of pleasure most solacious, 

 With Flora painted and wrought curiously 

 In divers knottes of marvaylous greteness, 

 Rampande lyons stood up wonderfly 

 Made of all herbs of dulcet sweetness, 

 With many dragons of marvaylous likeness 

 Of divers floures made ful craftely, 

 By Flora couloured with colours sundry." 



We recognize the elaborately constructed 

 garden of the Tudor period. 



It is enclosed with walls, and probably a 

 moat, a reminder of a still earlier time. It is 

 divided by two principal cross-paths into 

 quarters, subdivided into knots, while outside 

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