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curious-knotted “garden,” LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, i. 1. 236. “Ancient gardens abounded with figures, of which the lines intersected each other in many directions. Thus, in Richard II., iii. 4. 46.
‘Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruin'd,
Her knots disorder'd, etc.’; ” (STEEVENS) . “The beds, or plots, disposed in mathematical symmetry, were the knots” (KNIGHT) .

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