_ Won Chaonis abfuit arbos, 



Non nemus Heliadum, nonfrondibus esculus altis, 

 Nee tilice molles, necfagus, et innuba laurus, 

 Et corylifragiles, etfraxinus utilis hastis, 

 Enodisque abies, curvdtaque glandibus ilex, 

 Et Platanus genialis, acerque coloribus impar, 

 Amnicolaque simul salices, et aqnatica lotos, 

 Perpetuoque virens buxus, tenuesque myric<z, 

 Et bicolor myrtus, et baccis ccerula tinus ; 

 Vos quoqueflexipedes hederte venistis, et una 

 Eampinete vites, et amictte vitibus ulmi : 

 Ornique, et picea, pomoque onerata rubenti 

 Arbutus, et lentce victoris prcemia palmce : 

 Et succincta comas, hirsutaque vertice pinus 

 Grttta Deum matri > 



OVID. Metamorph, 



" Much can we praise the trees so straight and hy, 

 The sayling pine ; the cedar proud and tall ; 

 The vine-propt elme ; the poplar never dry ; 

 The builder oake, sole king of forrests all ; 

 The aspine, good for staves ; the cypresse funerall ; 

 The laurell, meed of mightie conquerours 

 And poets sage ; the firre that weepeth still ; 

 The eugh, obedient to the bender's will ; 

 The birch for shaftes ; the sallow for the mill ; 

 The mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound ; 

 The warlike beech ; the ash for nothing ill ; 

 The fruitful olive ; and the platane sound ; 

 The carver holme ; the maple, seldom inward sound." 



SPENCER'S Faerie Queene, Book I. Canto 1, 



