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artiſts do at the preſent day: both he and our lady artiſt in the cut are evidently painting on board. We begin now alſo to trace the exiſtence An image should appear at this position in the text.No. 268. A Painter at his Eaſel. of a great number of domeſtic ſports and paſtimes, ſome of which ſtill remain in uſage, but which we have not here room to enumerate.
Out of doors, the garden continued to be the favourite reſort of the ladies. It would be eaſy to pick out numerous deſcriptions of gardens from the writers of the fifteenth century. Lydgate thus deſcribes the garden of the rich "churl:"—
Whilom ther was in a ſmal village,
As myn autor makethe reherſayle,
A chorle, luhiche hadde luſt and a grete corage
Within hymſelf, be diligent travayle.
To array his gardeyn with notable apparayle.
Of lengthe and brede yelicke (equally) ſquare and longe,
Hegged and dyked to make it ſure and ſtronge.
As myn autor makethe reherſayle,
A chorle, luhiche hadde luſt and a grete corage
Within hymſelf, be diligent travayle.
To array his gardeyn with notable apparayle.
Of lengthe and brede yelicke (equally) ſquare and longe,
Hegged and dyked to make it ſure and ſtronge.
Alle the alcis ivere made playne ivith fond (sand),
The benches (hanks) turned with neive turvis grene,
Sote herbers (sweet beds of plants), with condite (fountain) at the honde.
That wellid up agayne the ſonne ſchene,
Lyke ſilver ſtremes as any criſtalle clene.
The benches (hanks) turned with neive turvis grene,
Sote herbers (sweet beds of plants), with condite (fountain) at the honde.
That wellid up agayne the ſonne ſchene,
Lyke ſilver ſtremes as any criſtalle clene.
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