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<e The Satyr's fate, whom angry Phoebus slew, 



Who raised with high conceit, and pufT'd with pride, 

 At his own pipe the skilful god defied. 



* Why do you tear me from myself?' he cries ; 



* Ah, cruel ! must my skin be made the prize ? 

 This for a silly pipe ? ' he roaring said, 

 Meanwhile the skin from off his limbs was flay'd." 



Crox all's Ovid. 



The oriental plane-tree called dulb by the 

 Arabians, appears to have been first intro- 

 duced into England about the middle of the 

 sixteenth century, as Turner says in his Her- 

 bal of 1568, " I have sene two very yong 

 trees in England, which were called there 

 Playn trees. Whose leues in all poyntes 

 were lyke vnto the leues of the Italian Playn 

 tre. And it is doutles that these two trees 

 were either brought out of Italy, or of som 

 farr countre beyond Italy, wherevnto the 

 freres, monkes, and chanones went a pyl- 

 grimage." Gerard does not notice having 

 seen the plane-tree in this country in 1597 ; 

 but he tells us that his servant, William 

 Marshall, whom he sent as surgeon in the 

 Hercules of London, found these trees grow- 

 ing in Lepanto in Greece; from whence, 

 says Gerard, " he brought one of those rough 

 buttons, being the fruit thereof." 



Our noble philosopher, Bacon, seems to 

 have been one of the earliest planters of the 



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