It standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy curious-knotted Garden. _Loves Labour's Lost_, act i, sc. 1 (248). (2) _Isabella._ He hath a Garden circummured with brick, Whose western side is with a Vineyard back'd; And to that Vineyard is a planched gate That makes his opening with this bigger key: The other doth command a little door Which from the Vineyard to the garden leads. _Measure for Measure_, act iv, sc. 1 (28). (3) _Antonio._ The Prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in my orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine. _Much Ado About Nothing_, act i, sc. 2 (9). (4) _Iago._ Our bodies are our Gardens, &c. (_See_ HYSSOP.) _Othello_, act i, sc. 3 (323). (5) _1st Servant._ Why should we, in the compass of a pale, Keep law and form and due proportion, Showing as in a model our firm estate, When our sea-walled Garden, the whole land, Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruin'd, Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs Swarming with caterpillars? _Richard II_, act iii, sc. 4 (40). The flower-gardens of Shakespeare's time were very different to the flower-gardens of our day; but we have so many good descriptions of them in books and pictures that we have no difficulty in realizing them both in their general form and arrangement. I am now speaking only of the flower-gardens; the kitchen-gardens and orchards were very much like our own, except in the one important difference, that they had necessarily much less glass than our modern gardens can command. In the flower-garden the grand leading principle was uniformity and formality carried out into very minute details. "The garden is best to be square," was Lord Bacon's rule; "the form that men like in general is a square, though roundness be _forma perfectissima_," was Lawson's rule; and this form was chosen because the garden was considered to be a purtenance and continuation of the house, designed so as strictly to harmonize with the architecture of the building. And Parkinson's advice was to the same effect: "The orbicular or round form is held in its own proper existence to be the most absolute form, containing within it all other forms whatsoever; but few, I think, will chuse such a proportion to be joyned to their habitation. The triangular or three-square form is such a form also as is seldom chosen by any that may make another choise. The four-square form is the most usually accepted with all, and doth best agree with any man's dwelling." This was the shape of the ideal garden--