Let us end with the poet: When ships for bloody combat we prepare, Oak affords plank, and arms our men of war; Maintains our fires, makes ploughs to till the ground, For use no timber like the oak is found.{62:2} FOOTNOTES: {31:1} _Saturn._ lib.II.cap.

16.
{35:1} (Caerula distinguens inter plaga currere posset Per tumulos, & convalles, camposque profusa: Ut nunc esse vides vario distincta lepore Omnia, que pomis intersita dulcibus ornant Arbustisque tenent felicibus obsita circum).
_Lucret.l.

5._ {37:1} See what Vossius has written in his Observations on Catullus, p.
204.

_Indomitus turbo contorquens flamine_......
{39:1} .....Aurea durae Mala ferant quercus.
_Ecl.

8._ {39:2} Glandemque sues fregere sub Ulmo.
_Geor._ {41:1} Which yet some, upon good experience will not allow in transplanting young Oaks; affirming the taking them up without any abatement, or the least wound, does exceedingly advance the growth of this tree above such as are depriv'd of it.
{41:2} .......Quae quantum vertice ad auras AEthereas, tantum radice in Tartara tendit.
_Geo._ l.