Pleasaunce

There was some principle of order, and even now, when the Pleasaunce is a wilderness, the traces can be found.

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

In the Royal Order of Gardens, as Bacon puts it, there was always a quiet resting-place called the Pleasaunce; there the daisies grew unchecked, and the grass was ever the greenest.

Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston John Ruskin 1859

Miss Carnegie was generally gracious, and would see him on his way if the day were fine, or show him some improvements in the "Pleasaunce," or accompany him to

Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

However, I am very well informed about the Pleasaunce and the formation of the Friends group.

The truth behind our Council Tax rise? 2006

One of the strangest, oddest things about the Pleasaunce bit of it is that when I e-mailed local resident Kate P I would get a reply e-mail from Chris Roberts.

The truth behind our Council Tax rise? 2006

By the end of March 2006, the Pleasaunce was not cleaner, greener or safer.

The truth behind our Council Tax rise? 2006

I am not a Friend of the Pleasaunce officially though I know many friends and have seen lots of the barking-mad emails which they have had inflicted on them.

The truth behind our Council Tax rise? 2006

Rejoined the Caliph: "And I wager and say that none is dead save Nuzhat al-Fuad, and the stake between me and thee shall be the Garden of Pleasaunce against thy palace and the Pavilion of Pictures."

Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

Seeke Honnoure fyrste, and Pleasaunce lies behynde.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Furstenstein, in Silesia, "a fine schloss, with beautiful gardens and terraces," -- in short, "a Pleasaunce."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 12, 1892 Various