The Countess of Bedford's Twickenham Park: Plan of Garden and House, 1608.

'Twere wholesomer for me that winter did
Benight the glory of this place,
And that a grave frost did forbid
These trees to laugh and mock me to my face ;
But that I may not this disgrace
Endure, nor yet leave loving, Love, let me
Some senseless piece of this place be ;
Make me a mandrake, so I may grow here,
Or a stone fountain weeping out my year.

Lines from Donne's poem about this garden. Shakespeare frequently uses such gardens to locate his scenes as for example in Love's Labour's Lost: " But to the place where, it standeth north-north-east and by east from the west corner of thy curious-knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited swain." (I.i.2244-7) Plan courtesy of the Twickenham Museum.