PINE THEE. 319 



Sannazaro speaks of " Pini si grandi, e si spatiosi, 

 che ogn \m per so havrebbe quasi bastato ad ombrare 

 un selva." Pines so large and spreading, that any one 

 of them might almost linve sufficed to shade a wood. 



He says that the shadow of the Pine kills every plant 

 that is under it : he alludes perhaps to some particular 

 species; certainly grass will grow luxuriantly under 

 Pines. 



A modern writer expresses a similar notion. 



Shepherdess. " Help me, drive my sheep 

 Under yon lentisk hedge, while you and I 

 Beneath these shady pines can take our seat." 



Shepherd. Here is no turf, and all is rough and deep, 

 With scattered cones that will not let us lie." 



H. SMITH. 





