England described as a garden in Richard II is telling of how the country that is loved and has been feared for so long by so many is now being lead down a path that could lead to ruin and demise due to greed and egotism. When John of Gault spoke, he described a land that he loved and wanted to remain a leader and power in the world.
A dying man’s words
In Act 2 Scene 1 of Richard II, we see where the dying John of Gault speaks of his love for England, how England was the protector of the world when they were in need. He speaks passionately of how England was designed by God to protect and to help others when they are in need of food, armies or faith. “This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb
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Kings who do not pull weeds
Richard being the King and having the ability to choose who he should or should not listen to was not always a good gardener in this paradise that he has the power to rule over. In Act 3 Scene 4, the Gardner speaks of how Richard should have tended to his land better and pulled the weeds when he had the chance but instead he squandered the chance he had and now he is out of time and will soon loose both his power and his life because of his poor choices. “Had he done so to great and growing men,
They might have lived to bear and he to taste
Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:
Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,
Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.” (Act 3 Scene 4 lines 65-70)
In Act 5 Scene 2 the Duchess asks her son “Who are the violets