The present passage was imitated and amplified by the authoress of The Flower and the Leaf, beginning at l. 49:—
'a pleasaunt herber well ywrought,
That benched was, and with turfes new,
Freshly turved, wherof the grene gras,
So small, so thicke, so short, so fresh of hew,
That most like unto green woll wot I it was;
The hegge also, that yede in compas
And closed in all the grene herbere,
With sicamour was set and eglatere'; &c.
So too, in the Assembly of Ladies, st. 7:—