268 The S^atw all and Moral! 



carries no fruit, at the leaft,they made no account ther- 

 of , but the chiefcft reafon why they efteenied it, was, 

 for the fhadow , for that there was no moreSunne vn- 

 dcr a Phnc thari vnder a roofe. And contrariwifc, the 

 reafon why they fhouldc regardc it atthe/W/<?/, yea 

 make great accompt thereof, is by reafon of this fruitc, 

 which is vciy good ; for they have little ihade . More 

 over, the antient Plane had the body fb bigge, and the 

 boughs fo fpread,that Pliny reporteth of one Liciniw a 

 Ilomane Captaine, who with eightecncof his compa 

 nions dined at cafe in th'hollow of one of thefe planes: 

 and of the Emperour Caiw Caligula, who with eleven 

 of his ghefts feafted vpon the toppc of an other Plane, 

 where he made them a fumptuous banquet. Thelndi. 

 an Planes have neither fo great nor hollow bodies,nor 

 fobroade boughs . He faieth moreover, that thcaunti- 

 ent Planes grew in Italic and in Spain* , although they 

 had beenc brought thither from Greece $ and firft from 

 Afia y but the Indians Planes growe neither in Italy nor 

 mSpainc. I fay they growe not there, for although we 

 have fccnc fome at Seville in the Kings gardins^yet they 

 profper not, nor are of any account . Finally, whatfoc- 

 ver they find alike betwixt the one and the other,is ve 

 ry different. For although the leaves of tfeeauntient 

 Planes were very great , yet were they not fuch,nor fb 

 grcatasthofcatthe/W/'tf, feeing that Pliny compares 

 it to the leafc of a Vine or Figge tree. 

 6 The leaves of the Indian Plane, areofa wonderfull 

 bignes, and are, in a maner, fufficient to cover a man 

 from the foote to the head , fo as no man can doubt 

 but there is great difference betwixt the one and the 

 other. But put the cafe that this Indian Plane be diffe 

 rent from the ancicnt,yct deferves it no lefle commen 

 dation, 



