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A youthful grove, yielding a lovely shade; 

 Until at last, their stately heads they rear, 

 And tall (as those which they succeed) appear, 

 Ready again the workmens tools to marr. 

 This various culture, by the Germans taught, 

 Most other nations into use have brought : 

 Such is the love of groves, that with delight, 

 Or ample profit may the pains requite. 



Having before celebrated and described the famous 

 forest about Norimberg : 



1 A wood with kind embraces, five 2 miles wide, 

 Encompasses the town on every side. 

 No whit inferior to th' Hercinian grove, 

 Whether you profit most, or pleasure love. 



Of which noble forest and privileges, such care has 

 been taken by many 3 emperors, that the very models 

 of the plows are still preserved, drawn by above an 

 hundred horse, when 200 years since, this Royal 

 plantation was begun, wisely presaging what ravage 

 might be made by the spoil which the wars have 



Adnasci, parvosque umbram defendere ramos 

 Exiguam, teneramque novo de germine silvam 

 Surgere, & in patrias paulatim adolescere formas ; 

 Donee in antiquum redeat decus, altaque caelo 

 Attollat capita, & concusso vertice nutet 

 Lassatura iterum patrias jam silva secures, 

 Has aliae innumerae per tot jam secula, terrae 

 Rescivere artes reparandarum silvarum. 

 Inventrix docuit Germania, tanta cupido est 

 Tantus amor nemorum, quorum vel blanda voluptus, 

 Vel gravis utilitas sit responsura labori. 



i Circuit inclusam pulchris amplexibus urbem 

 Silva patens passum per millia quinque recessu 

 Interiore sui, vel paulo plura, nee ulli 

 Herciniae nemorum cedens, si commoda spectes ; 

 Aut etiam quae silvarum solet esse voluptas, 

 Te juvet, atque animi tantum oblectamina quaeras. 



* German Miles in England. 20. 

 3 Colerus Oecon. 1. 8. c. i. n. 



