I04 ^ DifcOHrfe of Forcft-Trees. 



of timber and Foreli-trees is requifite 5 fo as it was not for no- 

 thing, that the very name (which the Greeks generally apply 'd to 

 Timber) i^'^h, by Senechdoche^y^zstsken always pro Materia 5 fince 

 we hardly find any thing in Nature more univerfally ufeful 5 or, in 

 comparilon with it, deferving the name oi Material. 



9. To ium i*p all the good qualities then, and tranfiendent per- 

 feftions of Trees ^ let us hear the harmonious Foets^ in this con- 

 fort of their Elogies : 



dant utile lignum 



Havigik pinos^ domibus cedrofqus cupreffofque ; 

 Hinc radios trivere rotis^ hinc tympana plauHrif 

 AgricoU^ C^ pandas ratibus p»fitere carinas. 

 Viminibusfalices^ faecundsfioondibui Vlmi : 

 At Myrtus validis haUilibus^ & bona bello 

 Cornm : Ityreos Taxi torquentur in arcus. 

 Nee Tili£ leves, ant torno rajile Buxum, 

 Nonformam accipiunt ferroque cavantur acuto. 

 Nee nan c^ torrentem undam in levis innatat Alnus 

 Mijj'a. Pado 5 nee non ^ apes examina condunt 

 Corticibufque cavk, vitiofie^ llieif aho : Georg. 2. 



and the moft ingenious Ovid^ where he introduces the miraculous 

 Grove rais'd by the melodious Song of Orphem, 



—non ehaonk abfuit arbor. 



Non nemm Ueliadum, non frondibua <ejculus dltif. 

 Nee Tilia molles^ nee Fagus, d^ innuba Laurus^ 

 Et Corylifiagiles, €^ Fraxinus utilis haStk 3 

 Enodifque Abies, eurvataque glandibus Ilex, ' 

 Et Platanusgenialis, Acerque eoloribus impar, 

 AmnicoUqueftmulSalices, ^ aquatiea Lotos, 

 Terpetuoque virens Buxus^ tenuefque Myriea^ 

 Et bicolor Myrtus, & baeeis earula Fieus. 

 Vos quoqueflexi-pedes Heder£ venijiis, c^ una 

 Fampine£ Vites, d^ amiB<e Vitibus Vlmi, 

 Ornique, ^ Piee£, Pomoque onerata rubenti 

 Arbutus, C^ lent a vi^oris pr<emia Palnta, 

 Et juceinBa eomoi, hirfittaquevertieePinus 

 Grata Deum matri, dfc. Met. lO, 



as the incomparable Poet goes en, and is imitated by our divine 

 apencer, where he brings his gentle Kmght into a fhady Grope 

 praifing i 



'the Tree/ (b ftraight, and high. 



The failing Pine, the Cedar proud, and tall, 

 The Vine-prop Elm, the PopUr never dry 

 The builder Oali, fole King ot toreiis all 3 



The 



