OF forest-trees.

In hollow Bark Bees do their Honey stive,

And make the "Trunk of an old Oak their Hive.

And the most ingenious Ovid, where he introduces the miraculousGroves raised by the melodious Song of Orpheus .

b - nor Trees of Chaony,

The Poplar, various Oaks that pierce the Sky,

Soft Linden, fmooth-rind Beech, unmarried Bays,

The brittle Hasel, Ash, whose Spears we praise,

*Dnknotty Fir, the solace shading Planes,

Rough Chesnuts, Maple fleck’d with different Grains jStream-bordering Willow, Lotus loving Lakes,

Tough Box, whom never sappy Spring forsakes,

The fender Tamarisk, with Trees that bearA purple Fig, nor Myrtles absent were.

The wanton Ivy wreath’d in amorous Twines ,

Vines bearing Grapes, and Elms supporting Vines,

Streight Service-Trees, Trees dropping Pitch, Fruit-red,

Arbutus, these the reft accompanied.

With limber Palms, of ViSiory the Brize ;

And upright Pine, whose Leaves like Bristles rife ,

Briz’d by the Mother of the Gods -

S a n d y s.

as the incomparable Boet goes on, and is imitated by our DivineSpencer , where he brings his gentle Knight into a fliady Grove, praising

-the Trees so streight, and high,

The sailing Bine , the Cedar proud, and tall,

The Vine- prop Elm, the Boplar never dry,

The Builder Oak , sole King of Forests all;

The Afpine, good for Staves; the Cypress Funeral:,

The Laurel , Meed of mighty ConquerorsAnd Boets sage ; The Fir that weepeth still;

The Willow , worn of forlorn Paramours;

The Tew, obedient to the Bender’s Will;

The Birch for Shafts; the Sallow for the Mill;

The Myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter Wound;

The War-likeT?mv& ; the Aft? for nothing ill;

The fruitful Olive ; and the Blantane round; ;

The Carver Holm ; the Maple, seldom inward sound.

Canto 1.

2.41Chap. IV.

—-non Chaonis abfuit arbor,

Non nernus Heliadum, non frondibus Æsculus altis,

N« Till* mo le. nec Fagus, & innuba Laurus,

Et Coryli rragiles, & Fraxinus utilis hastis ,

Enodisque Abies, curvataque glandibus IlexEt Platanus genialis, Acerque coloribus impar,

Amnieolæque simul Salices, 8c aquatica Lotos,

Pcrpetuoque virens Buxus, tenuesque Myricæ, »

Et bicolor Myrtus, 8c baccis cærula Ficus.

Vos quoque Sexi-pedes Hederæ yenistis, & un afampineæ Vites, 8c amictas Vitibus Ulmi,

Ornique, 8c Piceæ, Pomoque onerata rub em!

Arbutus, Sc lentx victoris prænaia Palmæ,

Et succincta ,comas, hirsutaque vertice Pinus

Urata Devurf matri, Vc. &Ut. x.

And