Whose Strength and Courage had subdu’d the East.
He therefore chooses a less dang’rous fray,
And summons all his Country’s Plants away:
Forthwith in decent Order they appear,
And various Fruits on various Branches wear;
Like Amazons they stand in painted Arms,
Coca alone appears with little Charms;
Yet led the Van, our scoffing Venus scorn’d
The shrublike Tree, and with no Fruit adorn’d.
The Indian Plants, said she, are like to speed