The garden was by measuring, Right even and square in compasing: It was long as it was large, Of fruit had every tree his charge, And many homely trees there were, [39] That peaches, coines, [40] and apples bare. Medlers, plommes, peeres, chesteinis, Cherise, of which many one faine [41] is, With many a high laurel and pine Was ranged clean all that gardene. There might men Does and Roes see, And of Squirrels ful great plentee From bough to bough alway leping; Connis there were also playing And maden many a tourneying Upon the fresh grass springing. In places saw I wells there In which no frogges were. There sprang the violet all new And fresh pervinke, rich of hue, And flowers yellow, white and rede, Such plenty grew there never in mede, Full gay was all the ground, and quaint, And poudred, as men had it peint With many a fresh and sundry flour That castes up full good savour. So far for an old English garden, or "pleasance," and the pleasures of it. Now take a bit of description written this year of a modern English garden or pleasance, and the pleasures of it, and newly invented odours:-- In a short time the sportsmen issued from the (new?) hall, and, accompanied by sixty or seventy attendants, bent their steps towards that part of the park in which the old hall is situate. Here were the rabbit covers--large patches of rank fern, three or four feet in height, and extending over many acres. The doomed rabbits, assiduously driven from the burrows during the preceding week by the keepers, forced from their lodgings beneath the tree-roots by the suffocating fumes of sulphur, and deterred from returning thither by the application of gas-tar to the "runs," had been forced to seek shelter in the fern patch; and here they literally swarmed. At the edge of the ferns a halt was called, and the head gamekeeper proceeded to arrange his assistants in the most approved "beating" fashion. The shooting party, nine in number, including the prince, distributed themselves in advance of the line of beaters, and the word "Forward!" was given. Simultaneously the line of beaters moved into the cover, vigorously thrashing the long ferns with their stout sticks, and giving vent to a variety of uncouth ejaculations, which it was supposed were calculated to terrify the hidden rabbits. Hardly had the beaters proceeded half-a-dozen yards when the cover in front of them became violently agitated, and rabbits were seen running in all directions. The quantity of game thus started was little short of marvellous--the very ground seemed to be alive. Simultaneously with the appearance of the terrified animals the slaughter commenced. Each sportsman carried a double-barrelled breechloader, and an attendant followed him closely, bearing an additional gun, ready loaded.