FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES.
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of his day, seen through his poet’s eye. The garden, “ ful of
braunches grene,” in which Emely was walking when she was
watched by the imprisoned knights, was such as might be seen
beneath many a feudal castle wall.
GARDEN, FROM FLEMISH MS. OF THE ROMAN DE LA ROSE, LATE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY. HARL. 4425.
“ The grete tour, that was so thikke and strong,
Which of the castel was the cheef dongeoun
* * * *
Was evene joynant to the gardyn wal.”
We have in history a counterpart of this garden of romance, that
of Windsor Castle. When James I. of Scotland was there, in
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of his day, seen through his poet’s eye. The garden, “ ful of
braunches grene,” in which Emely was walking when she was
watched by the imprisoned knights, was such as might be seen
beneath many a feudal castle wall.
GARDEN, FROM FLEMISH MS. OF THE ROMAN DE LA ROSE, LATE FIFTEENTH
CENTURY. HARL. 4425.
“ The grete tour, that was so thikke and strong,
Which of the castel was the cheef dongeoun
* * * *
Was evene joynant to the gardyn wal.”
We have in history a counterpart of this garden of romance, that
of Windsor Castle. When James I. of Scotland was there, in