'the Quincunx Miftically Confidered. 17! 



room to conjefture. 



Whether Ivy would pot lefle offend 

 the Trees in this clean ordination, and 

 well kept paths, might perhaps deferve 

 the queftion. But this were a quxry 

 only unto fome habitations, and little 

 concerning l)r** or the Babylonian ter 

 ritory 5 wherein by no induftry fftr- 

 fiiliu could make Ivy grow : And Alex**- 

 der hardly found it about thofe parts to 

 imitate the pomp ofBactbw.And though 

 in thefe Northern Regions we are too 

 much acquainted with one Ivy, we know 

 too little of another 5 whereby we ap 

 prehend not the expreffions of Antiqui- * 

 ty, the a Splenetick medicine of Galen* 

 and the Emphafis of the Poet, in the d 

 b beauty of the white Ivy. } 



The like concerning the growth of alba. 

 Mifle! toe, which depeudeth not only of 

 the fifties, or kinde of Tree, but much 

 alfo of the Soil, And therefore com* 

 mon in fome places, not readily found 

 in others, frequent in France , not fo 

 common in Spain 9 and fcarce at all ID 

 the Territory ot Fcrrava : Nor eafily 

 to be found where it is moft required 



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