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The rage for cards and dice prevailed equally in Scotland. Sir David Lindfay's popih paron, in 1535, boats of his kill in thee games:—

The ame celebrated writer, in a poem againt cardinal Beaton, repreents that prelate as a great gambler:—

Though gardening and horticulture in general, as arts, were undergoing coniderable improvement during this period, the garden itelf appears to have been much more neglected, except as far as it was the cene of other patimes. A bowling-green was the mot important part of the pleaure garden in the ixteenth and eventeenth centuries; and bowls, and exercies of a imilar character, were the favourite amuements of all clales. The gardens themelves, which were apart from the houe, and made more retired by lofty walls encloing them, were uually adorned with alcoves and ummer-houes, or, as they were then more uually termed, garden-houes, but thee were chiefly celebrated, epecially in the eventeenth century, as places of intrigue. There are continual alluions to this uage in the popular writers of the time. Thus, one of the peronages in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Woman Hater" exclaims, " This is no garden-houe: in my concience he went forth with no dihonet intent." And, in the play of the " Mayor of Quinborough,"—

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