836 A DISCOURSE

book iv, other Jife to his son, the most lively description he could make of itwas to tell him,

.. ... Lucis habitamus opacis.

______Wc dwell in shady Groves,.

And when /Eneas had travelled far to find those happy abodes,

Devenere locos Iastos, et amcena vlretaFortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas.

They came to Groves, of happy souls the rest,

To Evergreens, the dwellings of the blest.

Such a prospect has Virgil given us of his Elysium y and therefore wise-and great persons had always these sweet opportunities of recefs, theirDomos Silva, as we read, Reg. vii. 2, which were thence called Housesof Royal Refreshment ; or, as the Septuagint, O’Uvc Ipv/s.v, not much unlikethe Lodges in divers of our Noblemen’s Parks and Forest-walks ; whicliminds me of his choice in another Poem r

.-. ■ Pallas quas condidit arces,

Ipsacolat: nobis placeant ante omnia Sylvas. eclog. ii.

In lofty towers let Pallas take her rest,

Whilst shady Groves ’bove all things please us best. i

And for the same reason Mecamas

Maluit umbrosam Quercum-

—-.Chose the broad Oak — —

And as Horace bespeaks them,

----Me gelidum nemus,

Nympharumque leves cum Satyris ChoriSecernunt populo--

Me the cool woods above the rest advance,

Where the rough Satyrs with the light Nymphs dance

And Virgil again,

Nostra nec crubuit Silvas habitare Thalia.

Our sweet Thalia loves, nor does she scornTo hunt umbrageous Groves-‘