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Our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
Her fruit-trees all unpruned, her hedges ruined,
Her knots disordered, and her wholesome herbs
Swarming with caterpillars.

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. 1st Gardener's Man, in Richard II, act 3, sc. 4, l. 43-7.

Recalling the image of King Richard's favorites as "caterpillars of the commonwealth"; "knots" were patterned beds of flowers.

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