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 artits do at the preent day: both he and our lady artit in the cut are evidently painting on board. We begin now alo to trace the exitence

of a great number of dometic ports and patimes, ome of which till remain in uage, but which we have not here room to enumerate.

Out of doors, the garden continued to be the favourite reort of the ladies. It would be eay to pick out numerous decriptions of gardens from the writers of the fifteenth century. Lydgate thus decribes the garden of the rich "churl:"—

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