Yb the "Racier. 



Nor was it here they defiftcd, when, after the fate of 

 that beautiful Grove under Green-wich Caflk, the Royal 

 yyalk^ of Elms in S' James's Fark^, 



Mr. WMtfs ^ jfj^f living Gallery of aged Trees., 



St. James's 



P^'^' (as our excellent Toet calls it) was once propofing to the 



late Council of State to be cut down and fold, that with 

 the reft of His Majefties Houfes already demolifh'd^ 

 and mark'd out for defl:ru£tion, His Trees might likewife 

 undergo the fame define, and no footfteps of Monarchy 

 remain unviolated. This is a Truth ■■, which coming by 

 chance to hear of, I fo conjur'd a powerful Member of 

 it (and one who was to ftrike a principal firoal{e in this 

 barbarous Execution) that if my Authority did not rcfcue 

 thofc Trees from the Ax., fure I am, my Arguments did 

 abate the Edge of it ^ nor do I ever pafs under that Ma- 

 jeftical Jhade but methinks I hear it falute me as once the 

 Hamadryad did the good Kinaldo, 



7ajJo,Cant. Ben caro ginngi in quejie cjjiofire amene. 



Ouejia felva^ che diatt'X.i era fi negrdj 

 Vediche tutto al tuo venir / allegre-^ 

 E'n pik leggiadre forme e revejiita. 



It is from hence you may calculate what were the 

 Dcfigns of thofe excellent Reformers, and the care thefc 

 great States-men took for the prefervation of their Coun- 

 trey, when being Parties in the Boo/)/ themfelves, they 

 gave way to fo diflionourable and impolitic a ivajie of 

 that Material , which being left intire , or husbanded 

 with difcretion, had prov'd the beft fupporc and defence 

 of it. But this (fay they) was the effeft of War, ;and in 

 ig^ the heighth of our Contentions^. No, it was a late and 



cold deliberation , and long after all had been fubdu'd 

 to them i nor could the moft implacable of Enemies 

 have exprefs'd a more barbarous Refolution. 



We read of the great Xerxes .^that pafling Conquerour 

 through Achaia, he would not fuft'er his Army to^ violate 

 fo much as a Tree of his Adverfaries ^ it being obferv'd 



by 



