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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXXV. m com. ante hoftium litigatore , nec inter Sordes & lacrymas reoru fre- primantur: Sed fecedit animus in loca pura, atque innocentia, turque fedibus Sacris. And indeed the Poets thought of no other Heavex uponEarth, felicity of or elfewhere ; for when Anchifes was fetting forth the the other lifeto his Son, the moft lively defcription he could make of it was to tell him, happy Aand that when meas had travell’d far to find thofe bodes, Devenere locos latos, OF amen vireta Fortunatoram Memorum, Sede(que beatas They came to Groves, of happy Souls the Ref To Evegreens, the dwellings of the Bleft. Such a profpedt he givesus of his Ely/iums and therefore wife and great Perfons had alwayes thefe {weet opportunities of Receffe, their Domos Sylve, aswe tread, 2 Reg. 7. 2. which were thence calnot led Honjes of Royal Refrefhment, or as the Septuagint dines Dpvue, muchunlike the Lodges in divers of our Noble-mens Parks, and Foreft-Walks 5 which minds me of his choice in another Poem, Pallas quas condidit arces, Ipfa colat, nobis placeant ause émuia Sylva. Eclog. 2: tm lofty Towers let Pallas takeher reft, Whilfi thady Groves "bove all things pleafe us belts And for the fame reafon Afecénas - Me gelidum nemus Nympharumg; leves cum Satyris Chori, Secernunt populo—~——- or as thus exprefled by Petrarch, —_—_—— The Mufe hetRIF injoys Belt in the Woods, verfe flies the City noy {ee Innumerable are the Teftinionies I migh it of Groves and Woods out of the Poets, eee je race, Clandiaw, Statius, Silius, and othersof latter times off = cially the divine Petrarch; wereI minded to fwell this Cha we Subject, beyondthe limits of a Chapter: 1 think onely t cake notice, that Theatrical Reprefentations, fuch as were thofe. Ft Ionian call'd Andria ; the Scenes of Paftorals, and the Tike i é cent Rural Entertainments were of oid adornd and cats idop eramis G frondibus , cum racemis corymbis, and freque it ee prefented in Groves, as the Learned Scaliger thews ‘ wand pe : the moft beloved of Apollo rooted his coy Méiftris and th bleft Raptures have been conceiv'd in the Walks and thade ws ao “of Trees, and Poets have compofed Verfes which have thine ed mento Heroic and glorious Actions ; here Orators ( as we thea eae and Contemplation, and thefrugal Repatts —mollofyve fub Rrhtra nec erubuit Syloas babitave Thalias To haunt umbragious Groves Here then isthe true Parnaffts , Caftalia, and a Pe gigieee were the natural and chaft delights of our Fores and Virgil again, Our fweet 7halia loves, nor doesfhe {corn ems. a ie a a Grove of Venerable Oakes lendth ink| nea ee undred old Drayds, and the Bards e anfwer of our in- the Profound Philofophers fovd here to pafle their lives ye and as Horace befpeaks them, ‘Me the cool Wodds above the reft advance Where the rough Satyrs with the light Nymphs dance. «ces and Vanities of the great World, into the innoce nt felici ies ed _) have made their Panegyrics, Hiftorians grave Relati on ot Matuit wmbrofatm Qe0rvtsammmmin —Chole the broad 04k — A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. When it feems they will bear nothing but Nettles, and Thorns of a ae seta ayes. byindignation too 5 and cierefore 1 the Poets, except thofe who 7 Bread without the Bounty Ee Great men Be e e hat : they could get by flattering them ( which was Homer's tod og. * dar's cafe ) have not onely withdrawn themfelves from th Vi. of Gardens, and Groves, and Retirednefe, but have cmended and adorned nothing fo much intheir never- BiBcole d in a mene Lucis habitamus opacis We dwellin thady Groves, Chap. XXXV, Sylva placet Mufis, urbs ef inimica Pettin Infuch green Palaces the firft Kings reign’ Slept in their Shades, and Rogeleueonta : With fach old Counfellors they did advife : And byfrequenting Sacred Groves, grew Wife; Free from th’ impediments of Light and Noyfe, Manthusretir’d, his nobler thoughts imploys, Sotrue isthat of yet a better Poet of our own; Aswell might Cor#, as Verfé in Cities grow, Invain the thankleffe Glebe we Plow and Sow, Againft th’ unnatural Soil in vain we ftrive, *Tis not aground in whichthefe Plants will thrive. Comey. 12. Nor were Groves thus onely frequented b lars y and the great Wits, but bythe ited Sue ih litians alfo 5 and the Athenians were wont to Confult of h it graveft matters and Publick Concernments in them, F ee for thefe Afemblies were the Ceraunian , and at Rome ihe tae Petilinus, the Farentinus, and others, in which there was held that renowned Parliament after the Defeat of the Gayles b M Pepe é ae twas fuppofed that in places fo Sacred, thew pe yand Religioufly obferve what was Concluded When Mr. Wallirs As |