Note 26 — SCENE I.—Gripe's House, in the evening.
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The Mulberry Garden was situated at the further extremity of the Mall in St. James's Park, upon the site now occupied by Buckingham Palace and its grounds. Its name was derived from a plantation of mulberry trees which James I. caused to be made there. Later, the spot was converted into a public garden, with shrubberies, walks, arbours, and a house of refreshment, and was much frequented by persons of fashion as well as citizens. Pepys found it "a very silly place, worse than Spring-garden," but "a wilderness here that is somewhat pretty." The following extract from Sedley's Mulberry Garden gives an idea of the doings at this place. The scene is laid in the Garden:—
"Wildish. What, is there store of game here, gentlemen?
Modish. Troth, little or none; a few citizens that have brought their children out to air 'em, and eat cheesecakes.
Wildish. I thought this place had been so full of beauties, that like a pack of hounds in a hare warren, you could hunt one for another: what think you of an arbor and a bottle of Rhenish?"