1602.] 
New Italian Poems. 
DORI ¢ il] GIARDINIERE. 
MENTRE odorofa pianta 
D’aranci entro il giardino 
Di nuovi fior s’ammanta, 
Scende a quella vicino 
Una gentil donzella, 
Che tutti li raccoglie ; 
E, per fembrar piu bella, 
Tra il crinee tra le fpoglie 
E del fen tra gli avori, 
Al velo intreccia i fiori, 
Wella ftagion gradita 
Che il frutto al fior fuccede, 
Dolce defio la invita, 
E la rivolge il piede. 
Ma quando ella fi appreffa 
A quella pianta ftefla 
Attonita rimira 
Che carca e fol di fronde, 
E piange, e fe n’adira. 
E if giardinier rifponde : 
Bramavi i frutti, o Dori, 
Perche cogliefti i fiori ? 
From the Port-folia of a Man of Letters. 
237 
I] FANCIULLO € L°>USIGNOLO, 
ENTRE dell’ ufignolo un fanciullette 
Al manco piede ha un lungo filoattorto, 
Lo fpinge al vol con barbaro diletto 5 
Ma quanto é corto il filo, il volo é corto, 
Grida il fanciul con pueril difpetto: 
Volar non fai. Rifponde Pafignolo: 
SPEZZA QUEL FILO, E ALLOR VEDRAI SE 
VOLO. 
_EPIGRAMMI. 
EGLI epigrammi miei dira taluno 
Che di cento uno 
Saravvi buono 3 
Cofi dei mici lettori anch’io ragionos 
Dori, il ritratto 
Cl” Elvio ti ha fatts 
Di te e piu bello: 
Non parla quello, 
——— 
Extra&s from the Portfolio of a Man of Letters. 
—Eee 
BRUNETTO LATINI. 
Letter II. 
{Brunetto Latini gives a fhort defcription 
of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with fome 
account of the City of London, its Citizens, 
and the Court of Henry the Third,—his re- 
lation of an Elephant kept in the Tower, 
and his Hiftory of that Animal. ] 
REAT BRITAIN, which is now 
ee called England, has two Archbi- 
fhoprics, which are thofe of Canterbury 
and York; it has befides eighteen Bifhop- 
yicks. The neighbouring ifland of Ireland 
has the Archbifhoprics ot Armagh, Dub- . 
lin, Cafhel and Tuam; and taventy-/ix 
Bifhops-fees. Adjoining to England is 
the Kingdom of Scotland, which has nine 
Bifhoprics. You muft underftand that i 
maft parts of thefe ifiands, and particularly 
in Ireland, mo ferpent.is to be found; ond 
moreover, ithe people of the country fays 
that wherever fiones or foil, brought jrom 
' Ireland are laid, no ferpent can fiay on the 
fpot. {La Grant Bretaizne, qui eft ores 
Engleterre clamee, ou eft Larcevefchie de 
Cuntorbire et celui de Bruges, et xviij.' 
Eve{chies. Apres elt Yr/ande,ou eft Larfch- 
evefchie de Marchie, et de Duiielin, et de 
Caffeles, et de Tuen, et xx-vj. Evechies. 
Apres eft Efcoce, ou il y a jx. Eveichies. 
Et fachies que en la plus grant partie de 
toutes les ylles, et efpeciaument en Irlande, 
na nul ferpent, et porce dient |i paiffant 
Montruiy Mac. No. gs. 
que la ou len portaft des pierres ou de la 
terre dirlande nul farpent nt porcit de- 
morer. \ 
Henry, the fon of King John, is ftyled 
King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke 
of Normandy and Aquitain, and Earl of 
Anjou. In his perfon he is comely and 
tall, and has now attained a mature age, 
having been a crowned Sovereign during 
the greateft part of his life, as his father 
died whilft he was yet an infant. When 
I confider the many troubles and vexa- 
tions he has met with, owing to the con- - 
ftant bickerings and-difputes betwixt him 
and his vaffals, the Barons of England, 
who have frequently been in arms againft 
him, I wonder much that he preferves fa 
jarge a fhare of health and vigour. He 
refides, for the moft part, in the Tower of 
London, which is a flrong place; he has 
added fome additional works to it, fo that 
it may be reckoned impregnable by land; 
and the River Thames wafhing one fide 
of it, and filling the ditches to a great 
depth, isa ftill turther fecurity. During 
the feafon of the great feftivals, and upon 
other public occations, he refides at his 
Paiace of Weltminfter, adjoining to which 
is the great hall wherein he feafts with his 
Nobles. In this ball are likewife held 
the Griat Councils of tie Nation,-or, as 
they age calléd, the Pariiaments. The 
Caftle of Windfor is a Krong place, fitu- 
ated on a hill, commanding, on all fides, 
qi a view 
