Exemploq́₃que monet, tales nos quærere amicos,
Quos neque disſiungat fædere summa dies.
To which lines Whitney (p. 62) gives for interpretation the two stanzas,—
“A Withered Elme, whose boughes weare bare of leaues
And sappe, was sunke with age into the roote:
A fruictefull vine, vnto her bodie cleaues,
Whose grapes did hange, from toppe vnto the foote:
And when the Elme, was rotten, drie, and dead,
His braunches still, the vine abowt it spread.
Which showes, wee shoulde be linck’de with such a frende,