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† Paris garden Obs.
Also 6–7 Parish garden.
[See quot. 1674.]
Name of a place at Bankside, Southwark, where a bear-garden was kept in Elizabethan and later times; hence, ‘a bear-garden’, a noisy disorderly place. Also attrib.
1589Nashe Pasquil's Return Wks. (Grosart) I. 109 Strange trickes, and deuises, betweene the Ape and the Owle, the like was neuer yet seene in Paris-garden. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 253 Eager to catch him, as a dog to take a beare by the eares in Parish-garden. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 172 Bred up, where Discipline most rare is, In Military Garden-Paris. 1672R. Wild Poet. Licent. 31 Their Churches Paris-Gardens are become. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Paris Garden, is the place on the Thames Bank-side at London, where the Bears are kept and baited; and was antiently so called from Robert de Paris, who had a House there in Richard the second's time. |