or his wife and child, f 
way—he of course, sabes himself to grief, and a beauti 
colleen . made upon the occasion, by the poet— 
the mountain top, 
A s j 
Whose vigorous arms are tor “ony 
By some rude thunder ecient 
Old Ballad.—See nee en 
=, areata lady y ¥. the woods,” upon the fate 
e dead, the other pbosnd 
iful 
ta’ 
argument, I wi 
“2, 1 
irtues will impress upon the in ever-livi 
King es in hi k upon the Reciproc 
of Kings and Subjects, written for the Lenefit of his son Henry, 
his presu successor, 
rt ra 
transcribe a few lines— 
Am ong t he Rom: mans, there 
 civi Thi ferr 
detecting cot Gsahiacyont, afterwards, on Augustu: 
Cesa: self. 
Most worthy of the oaken wreath 
The ancients him esteem’ 
yobs ina — had from death 
n of worth redeem’d. 
Drayton. 
_ The oak. was sacred to ee bios great guardian of their 
ornament — = who had preserv a a citizen, 
Ovid te 
as vane of renown, 
victor cro 
The laurel was not yet for trium nae borne; 
sa avery green, alike, =~ Pheebus Worn, 
To find in Sir TH 
We OMG iff ost 
vations upon 
s subject, “the use of garlands an d floral 
ity. For — the old Greeks 
. 
i eep them fro g ai 
their festal compotati ions. Bs 5 In their convin ivial garlands, they 
exhalation: s from * wine.” —— solemn cre garlands, were 
made properly unt a) their 
a er ee 
cd 
were 
select ed under such considerations 
& Percy's _ liques of Ancient pot ie furnishes corroborative 
proof o use of pertands, joe of particular flowers, ex- 
pressiv 
A gsriand shall be 
Corydon’s Doleful Knell. 
e Li , or Holm-oak, Q. Virens, is an evergreen tree, 
which ace our sca states of America, particularly in the 
genial climate of Florida, is the most magnificent of forest 
prea It is rarely _— no ve sie the middle states, sa ae 
as it ease lee 
eae 
a: uth 
orates, as 
chi —_ a Eu ahead ae por 
ofa anaes size. we is 
ard, 
especially in the construction =e 
ena color, the feet “= 
a scaly cup. 
This oak, so nobly superior to all others, by its cae 
verdure—th e firmness of its texture—its abi ility to resi 
ean- tre: 
of our homestead —ha n select 
the virtues, which ought to grace the highest station, pat 
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tributed as rewards of at ‘ectiiee ements. ih dod ccrown 
f ra. 5 Was given 
If then ye would enioy a happie rai; 
sha 
Resembling right your mightie king. pre i 
In pov letter to his son, , accompa nying the work, he 
tour er counsellour ynto you. I charge you keepe it euer 
bern re as carefu lly as Alexander did the Mads of Homer. 
od precepts hereafter following. 
—— _ 
I end with m my 
to God, tow vorke re effectuay i into few es fruits 
Class 3.—TRIANDRIA. 
hae a agi n Etan, to eat; for e 
horses—and i ~ some places for men.” 
vpon you 
1. R. 
Your louing father, 
OATS. 
AVENA. 
Order.—DIGYNIA. 
: . Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
GRAMINA. 
ived from areo, to — or covet, 
lo, 
Avena, supposed to 
— "yen very robe! of it.—Rees’s Encye 
m the Anglo-Saxon Aten, Avena: th is perhaps, 
every ig Ft is food for 
—See 
r Johnson’s offensive definitio on ae pore 
is generally given 
gen 
f wit a thas been tho 
@ second defini ition 
d 
mpo aye: as oa! 
of oat, in Johnson, is “‘a small made of oaten straw.” si 
in Pitt’s Virgil, we are told thet = pd musical instrum 
used by ce wes were at 
d were called Avena; t py: hollow pipes of box— 
afterwards of other mate rials. 
- —— Shakspeare, Milton, and it Gs, there is frequent 
toral ag 
n of this rural pipe of the pasto! 
nine 
rer 
1} + See | a of ll 1 
Was entertainment for the infant stage. 
Roscommon. 
When re pipe on oaten-straws. 
And merry larks are ploughmen’s clocks. Shaks. 
Playing on pipes of corn, and versing love. Same. 
Tityre, tu patulae ee. sub ee ae fagi, 
Sylvestrem tenui m 
In beachen shades, you Tit’rus 50 along, 
Tune to the slender reed your sylvan 
ae irgiPs Eclogues. 
Charm’d with Arcadian pipe. Milton 
