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Cui, super indignas hy ernes, solemque potentem, 

 Sylvestres uri assidue, capre&que sequaces 

 Illudunt ; pascuniur oves, avid&quejuvenccz. 

 Frigora nee tantum cana concreta pruina, 

 Aut grams incumbens scopulis arentibus czstas ; 

 Q antum illi nocuere greges, durique venenum 

 Dentis, et admorso signata in stirpe cicatrix. 



Georg., ii. 



" Guard, too, from cattle thy new planted ground, 

 And infant vines that ill can bear a wound : 

 For not alone by winter's chilling frost, 

 Or summer's scorching beam the young are lost ; 

 But the wild buffaloes and greedy cows, 

 And goats and sportive kids the branches browze ; 

 Not piercing colds, nor Sirius' beams that beat 

 On the parched hills, and split their tops with heat, 

 So deeply injure, as the nibbling flocks, 

 That wound with venom'd teeth the tender, fearful 

 stocks." 



The reason that so many complain of the im- 

 prosperous condition of their woodlands and 

 plantations of this kind, proceeds from this 

 neglect ; though, sheep excepted, there is no 

 employment whatsoever incident to the farmer, 

 which requires less expense to gratify his ex- 

 pectations ; one diligent and skilful man will 

 govern five hundred acres. But if through any 

 accident a beast shall break into his master's 

 field, or the wicked hunter make a gap for 

 his dogs and horses, what a clamor is there 



