[1869] Ad serenissimam Majestatem Regiam &c.... Twene hope and drede, &c.] These Latin and English lines are from Marshe’s ed. Not in Faukes’s ed. MS. defective here.


ADMONET SKELTONIS OMNES ARBORES[1870] DARE LOCUM VIRIDI LAURO JUXTA GENUS SUUM.

Fraxinus in silvis, altis in montibus ornus,[1871]

Populus in fluviis, abies, patulissima fagus,

Lenta salix, platanus, pinguis ficulnea ficus,

Glandifera et quercus, pirus, esculus, ardua pinus,

Balsamus exudans, oleaster, oliva Minervæ,

Juniperus, buxus, lentiscus cuspide lenta,