Pleasance

the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses

It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.

Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]

Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell.