It was long as it was large,

Of fruit had every tree his charge,

And many homely trees there were,[5]

That peaches, coines,[6] and apples bare.

Medlers, plommes, peeres, chesteinis,

Cherise, of which many one faine[7] is,

With many a high laurel and pine

Was ranged clean all that gardene.

There might men Does and Roes see,

And of Squirrels ful great plentee