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Poem of the week: The Garden by Nicholas Grimald

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Nicholas Grimald was a Protestant preacher, scholar, playwright and poet. He was appointed chaplain to Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, in 1552. Grimald's poem reflects almost none of the turmoil of those years. It preaches the gentlest of sermons, suggesting that what the garden offers contrasts therapeutically with pleasure that leave a man full fain.

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Poem of the week: The Garden by Nicholas Grimald

A gentle sermon from a ‘blissful plot’ on the therapeutic joys to be found among its plants and flowers The GardenThe issue of great Jove, draw near, you Muses nine!Help us to praise the blissful plot of garden ground so fine.The garden gives good food and aid for leech’s cure; The garden, full of great delight, his master doth allure.Sweet sallet herbs be here, and herbs of every kind; The ruddy grapes, the seemly fruits, be here at hand to fi…

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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