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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03752	Dendrologia Dodona's grove, or, the vocall forrest. By I.H. Esqr.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Merian, Matthaeus, 1593-1650, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 13872; ESTC S119170	97,161	190

whose fruit is to cause in the eaters an oblivion of all other soyles and indeed the lotus of all other Trees hath most affinity with the Oke There is no place upon the habitable earth where the muses have two such dainty Groves of Laurels so choice and rich seates which both for plentifull exhibitions and sumptuous edifices of that kind are unparalleld They perpetually produce hopefull young cions which germinat with all kind of knowledge and come by degrees to a perfect maturity whereby she is alwaies furnished with nurseries of scientificall graffes which she disperseth up and downe to unfold the sacred Oracles for which she is now as renowned as some times she was for her Druyds And for a cumble of all felicity piety shines here in her genuine true lustre neither adulterated with any forc'd colours to set a specious glosse upon her by any phantasticke forme of outward ceremony Nor is she bereavd of such decent robes and rites whereof some fanaticke spirits would strip her starke naked that may make her appeare in a venerable and comely garb This stately Forrest hath multitudes of gentle lodges and strong retraites amongst which the great Emporiall Tamisond is the prime which take all her dimensions together for she hath not the advantage of the circular figure with her suburbian and conterminent fabrickes may well compare in magnitude and number of soules with the greatest assembly of houses in the lower world For wealth and an ubiquitary commerce none can exceed her And for government diurnall and nocturnall with a grave rich and magnificent magistracy ther 's not her fellow The proud River which makes her bed at her feet is arched over with such a curious pile of stones that considering the rapid course of the deepe streame that roares under it may well take place amongst the wonders of the world The Nereian goddesse comes twice every naturall day fourescore thousand paces off to visit her to render her thankes as it were for the rich tribute she useth to pay her Here is the Imperiall chamber of Druinas Monarque the prime rendevous of Nobles and Gentry the sole staple of the Marchant all the prime tribunalls of justice and equity and no where is the criminall part thereof so cautiously executed or the life of the meanest shrub more valued I could wish the civill part were answerable in point of expedition and that Iohn an Okes had not so many turnings and windings in this Forrest In summe this is the epitome of all Druina so that some have askd abroad whether Druina bee in Tamisond or Tamisond in Druina And herein and that not undeservedly Druina is taxd abroad of a solaecisme in her government that she should suffer to run into one Grove that sap which should go to vegetat the whole Forrest so that some have compard Tamisond to the spleene in the naturall body by whose swelling the other members become ill affected whereas her forren neighbours by a wholesome distribution appropriat some staple commodity or peculiar charter of commerce to severall places whereby they equally flourish grow populous potent and opulent A CHARACTER OF CARDENIA TOwards the septentrionall corners of Druina there stands another Forrest which serves her for a shelter as t' were against blustering Boreas well set but nothing so thick with stout and tough Trees though growne somewhat knobby of late of a different plantation and policy which hath beene but lately co-afforested with her at that time when she threw the fortunat cast of sice-ace and when to her three former Lions there was a fourth added for her defence which made Druina verifie that which all former ages held for a Paradox and take for the burthen of her song and I hope there will be never cause to the contrary Omne bonum nobis ex Aquilone venit An ancient Forrest she is for she pretends to shew a continued uninterrupted succession of above one hundred Kings As at other times so specially this last halfe century of yeares she hath produced many ventrous and martiall spirits who for their prowesse in the North east parts have purchas'd a great esteeme A long time the royall Vine made use of her Trees as of matches to set Druina a fire whensoever she attempted any thing against him puzling her with unlucky diversions therefore the Vine reserves to this day a row of them about him for his safety This caus'd many of the Martiall Okes to make sundry shrewd inrodes into Cardenia so far as to bring away her Kings Captive and make some of them breath their last in battaile But now for the greater glory of Druina they are both ingrafted upon one stocke into one body politicke and receive mutuall benefit from each other the one sappe the other strength For by this conjunction I hope Druina may rest secure that the Lillies shall never hereafter make use of the Thistle against her Roses And so shee may prove Carduus Benedictus unto her A CHARACTER OF MONTICOLIA TOwards the hilly corners of Druina remaine yet her very Aborigenes and ancient Indigenae the first nursery of Plants that sprouted out of her fatally thrust amongst an Assembly of mountaines They long time wrastled and strenuously tug'd for their libertie and that with a no lesse magnanimous then constant pertinacity yea when they were reducd to a handfull hem'd in betweene those hills they did notable feates At last being over set with multitudes which hath beene the fortune of the bravest spirits upon earth they chose to bow a little rather then breake Yet with this proviso that the Princely spray which should be their toppe Tree should spring forth from amongst themselves So prevalent is the instinct of nature and energie of fancy they beare to their owne soyle And very remarkable it is that after the revolution of above one thousand yeares and so many turmoyles and changes of governments and masters Druina having foure times yeelded to the fury of forren force the just hand of providence should bring the royall Oke to sprout againe out of this ancient stocke and that Druina should resume and be knowne againe by her primitive denomination A race of resolute stout Trees they are much valuing the antiquitie of their growth and so abounding with mettall and heat that they quickly take fire and become touch-wood they often clash their branches one against the other and very sensible they are of parting with the least drop of sappe The Trident-bearing God hath not such secure and commodious inlets or rather a Gallerie of Clossets to court and imbosome himselfe into our Grandame Earth in all the vast expanded Ocean The prime of the nine Hero's whom beside that which is fabulous there is truth enough to make famous was a plant of this growth by whose conquests Druina may lay just clayme though she had no other not only to Lurana but other dominions also nay if first discovery may entitle a right to Columbina also which as some

from Hipparcha the in-come doth no where countervaile the charge of garrisons and governors Yet I must confesse the two benefits that accrue to him by this diversity of territories are very considerable First the opportunity to propagat piety Secondly to have choice of imployments for his subjects and meanes thereby to breed up wise undertaking and heroicke spirits For great commands elevate the minde to great thoughts which being conversant with weighty and high passages the soule is inlargd thereby whereas inferiour states by their pettie employments and slender rewards impoverish and abase the fancy rendring it too narrow for high undertakings Countries of conquest cannot bee conserv'd without continuall expence nor their service usd with like assurance specially by Elaiana which can relye no where upon meere love and fiduciary obedience unlesse it be at her owne home where I cannot deny but she is exemplarily loyall to her selfe in a high exact obedience Touching other places she may be said to hold them as one should do a Wolfe by the eares nor will I speake now of the crazines of her title to many of them So that she is never in perfect tranquillity abroad and she esteemes her selfe to be in a manner in perfect peace if shee hath onely to doe with that huge Bramble of Alclarona so that it may be hence infer'd that the Olive is of late yeares much degenerated from his Primitive nature for whereas he was used to be the Embleme of peace he now ruffleth in a continuall course of armes And this is the reason I beleeve that the branch of Olive which at the beginning was the ancient cognisance of Elaiana is turn'd of late yeares to the Ragged staffe The Ampelonian Satyre having thus disgorg'd his stomacke suddenly ranne in and re-imboschd himselfe For my owne particular let AMPELONA tattle what she will against Elaiana I professe to honour her for sundry reasons I very much honour her for the solidnesse and secrecy of her Counsels For her loyalty to her Prince her patience and admirable phlegme her painfull and long moulded consultations proles tardè erescentis Olivae her deepe prudence and circumspection and indeed the Olive being sacred to Pallas is an Embleme of prudence as well as of peace she deserves honour for her constancy though with infinite expence and numberlesse inconveniences for the recovery of her own And without doubt it was a singular blessing from heaven that the discovery of Columbina with the conquest thereof was reserv'd for her I respect her for her perpetuall professed feud against the common enemy That her plants never rove abroad to beare armes for any strange Prince whereas others receive pay and serve under the banners of Infidels and oftentimes against their owne naturall Princes And as for Warres so for Wares they goe not abroad any where to trafficke but into the dominions of their owne Prince which makes the Olive to have no small advantage of his neighbours upon any sudden breach Amongst other places where the Martiall Olive shoots forth his imperious boughs Leoncia is one and thither I am bound next but the worst is that I must passe through the very heart of Ampelona a mighty incommodity For she being in perpetuall diffidence or actuall enmity with her but alwaies emulous and suspectfull of her I am afraid to be stop'd or searchd if not strip'd in the way And if I passe by Sea I may chance fall from the trying pan into the fire I meane into the hands of the Italians who of all other are most skilfull in rummaging and pillaging Besides I use to have a squeazie stomacke on salt Water for I doe nothing but tell what Tree the Shippe is made of A CHARACTER OF LEONCIA Noli irritare Leonem AND now have I gaind Leoncia the cockpit of the Westerne world and Academy of armes for many yeares The moderne though meanest kind of Militia is here altogether in practise which consists in blockments and batteries not pitch'd fields Never was there such a small circumference of ground so turnd up and unboweled by the Pioner so watred with bloud and calcin'd as it were by the flames and fury of Warre which hath made it a fatall peece of inheritance to Elaiana who hath tuggd here so long for her title with such a vast profusion of treasure and effusion of bloud that if she had not bin draind this way she might have tiled her palaces with occidentall gold and silver and by this time happily have made her selfe Mistris of Timaurania her next transmarin neighbour and regaind the Mount of Olives and achiev'd other high feates against Alcharona The vast expences she hath beene at to reduce Leoncia to her old obedience and entire subjection exceed the value of the thing it selfe forty times over at least if all Leoncia were to be sold in the market by out-cry And questionlesse envie her selfe must needs acknowledge this so costly a constancy in Elaiana never to abandon her owne to bee a brave magnanimous vertue Leoncia hath many Groves of different plantations but in the stemme of Elaiana they all met as lines in one center and came to be ingrafted all upon one stocke some by conquest others by donation and cession but most of them by inoculations There was a designe more than once to reduce them all to a kingdome But the multiplicity of customes and miscellany of municipall rights that sundry places clayme by inheritance were not compatible with a Monarchy and the invading of this freedome of customes with that of the conscience was the first fatall cause of Leoncias revolt from her alleageance to Elaiana The royall Olive was solemnly sworne at his Inauguration to observe these things inviolable then to come to visit her once every seventh yeare himselfe as also to ridde her quite of all forren force and to performe other obligatory conditions But hee being once gone and being dispensed withall for his septenniall visit by a holy instrument from Petropolis he resolvd to governe them by subalterne Ministers who it seemes scrud up the pinnes of power too high they layed on new taxes fell'd down some of the ancientst tall Trees as the Roman did the heads of the poppies so that they might bee compard to the Axe in the Fable who having got a handle of the Woods with much entreaty fell afterwards to cut downe and destroy them at pleasure A Counsell of bloud was erected and a harder yoake layed upon the conscience in holy rites One reason the Olive gave was that Leoncia her selfe began to infringe her old priviledges by introducing new formes into divine service and abolishing the old in which by vertue of his primitive oath he was indispensably sworne to continue them And thus the argument was retorted Druina and Ampelona intervend to compose these differences but they had a short answer of the Olive that hee needed not the helpe of any to reduce his own subjects to conformity but the oddes that were he