Sentence:  Suppose Shakespeare had been knocked on the head some dark night in Sir Thomas Lucy's <WSD>preserves</WSD>, the world would have wagged on better or worse, the pitcher gone to the well, the scythe to the corn, and the student to his book; and no one been any the wiser of the loss. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A reservation, a nature preserve.