He first inclosed within the gardens square
A dead and standing pool of air,

from Andrew Marvell – The Mower Against The Gardens on Rap Genius

The British “Enclosure Acts” — which ruined British farming by separating fields and tampering with crop rotation — happened a while after this was written, but enclosure had been going on for a while in England, and met with resistance from proto-communist groups like the Diggers

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