Pleasurance

When Cassandra hade knowyng how þe case stode, / Þat the mariage was made þo mighty betwene, / She brast out in a birre, bale to be-holde. / With a mighty noise, noye for to here, / Playnond with pytie, no pleasurance at all, / With sykyng & sorow said on this wise:— / “A! fonnet folke, why fare ye thus now, / With solas full sore, and sanges of myrthe, / At the weddyng of the weghes, þat shall to wo turne.

Soon as our thoughts the proper path have taken, / Seeking that pleasurance which oft controls / Life’s stern realities—Heaven will tire each mind / With love for sacred Right—with Justice to mankind!

Yet once, I mind me, Smith was forced to stay / Close in his room. Not calm as I was he; / But his noise brought no pleasurance, verily.

This is the wicked rout of pleasurance / That with fair seeming lureth men to fall. / Pleasure herself and Folly lead the dance, / Offering cups with many a luring call, / Whose wine sweet-tasting soon is turned to gall. / And they that follow them must surely die; / There is indeed no other remedy.

“And who art thou, and who art thou / Who seeks to enter in, / And from my own Heart’s Happyland / A pleasurance to win?” / “I am the King of Great Delight, / Whose other name is Sin.”

Feel the joy of driving a clean, comfortable automobile, fully equipped to make the toughest weather a pleasurance to drive in.

Then there is a series of formal walled gardens. Beyond them are wide lawns, pleasurances, great trees, walks, orchards, garden houses, conservatories and an orangery.

Modeled like English estates, at Gunston Hall there was a flower garden, a pleasurance, a deer park, a bowling green, and a vegetable garden, shielded by a lovely row of white and lavender lilac.