pleasance

Only the prospect of the Trent Valley and the Derbyshire foot-hills, visible beyond the pleasance, still pleased; and this view was vague and sad and distant.

But a mediæval knight went into his pleasance, to gather roses and hear the birds sing; or rode out hunting or hawking.

After hee had a while eaten, he fel to discourse with such pleasance, that all the table were greatly delighted therewith.

Beyond it is the Park Lane or Belgravia of Crawley—the residential and superior modern district of country houses, each in midst of its own little pleasance.

By 1752 Pitt had converted South Lodge, in the opinion of his friends or flatterers, into a delightful pleasance.