Non Chaonis abfuit arbos, 



Non nemus Heliadum, nonfrondibus csculus altis, 

 Nee tilice molles, necjagus, et innuba laurus, 

 Et corylifragiles, etfraxinus utilis hastis, 

 Enodisque abies, curvataque glandibus ilex, 

 Et Platanus genialis, acerque coloribus impar, 

 Amnicolceque simul salices, et aquatica lotos, 



Perpetubque virens buxus, tenuesque myricce, 

 Et bicolor myrtus, et baccis ccerula tinus ; 



Vos quoque Jlexipedes hederce venistis, et una 



JRampinece vites, et amictce vitibus ulmi ; 



Ornique, et picece, pomoque onerata rubenti 



Arbutus, et lentce victoris prcemia palmce : 



Et succincta comas, hirsutaque vertice pinus 



Grata 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 bake, sole king of forrests all ; 

 The aspine, good for staves ; the cypresse funeral 1 ; 

 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 Queenc, Book I. Canto 1 





