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336 A DISCOURSE 



BOOK IV. other life to his son, the most lively description he could make of it, 

 was to tell him. 



Lucis habitamus opacis. 

 We dwell in shady groves. 



And when jEneas had travelled far to find those happy abodes, 



Devenere locos Isetos, et amoena vireta 

 Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas. 



They came to groves, of happy souls the rest. 

 To evergreens, the dwellings of the blest. 



Such a prospect has Virgil given us of his Elysium ; and therefore, 

 wise and great persons had ahvays these sweet opportunities of recess, 

 their domos silvcs, as we read, Reg. vii. 2, which were thence called 

 houses of royal refreshment ; or, as the Septuagint, Otxs? SpDjj.s, not 

 much unlike the lodges in divers of our noblemen's parks and forest- 

 walks ; which minds me of his choice in another poem : 



' Pallas quas condidit arces. 



Ipsa colat : nobis placeant ante omnia silvae. eclog. ii. 



In lofty towers let Pallas take her rest. 



Whilst shady groves 'bove all things please us best. 



And for the same reason Maecenas 



Maluit umbrosam Quercum — 

 — — — Chose thi broad Oak 



And as Horace bespeaks them, 



Me gelidum nemus. 



Nympharumque leves cum satyris chori 

 Secernunt populo 



Me the cool woods above the rest advance. 



Where the rough satyrs with the light nymphs dance. 



And Virgil again. 



Nostra nec erubuit silvas habitare Thalia. 



Our sweet Thalia loves, nor does she scorn 

 To hunt umbrageous groves — — — — 



