( '55 ) 



whole, with all it's fpreading parts about it, 

 retains ftill a degree of pidlurefque beauty. 



Nobody fells a tree with a better grace, than 

 Virgil. You fee it fhaking at every ftroke of 

 the axe : 



■ Summis antlquam in montibus ornum 



Cum ferro accifam, crebrifque bipennibus inftant 

 Eruere agricolae certatim ; ilia ufque minatur, 

 Et tremefafta comam concuflb vertice nutat: 

 Vulneribus donee paulatim evifta, fupremum 

 Congemuit, traxitque jugis avulfa ruinam. 



