"The lofty high wood and the lower spring."
Drayton's Muses' Elysium, 10.
"The lesser birds that keep the lower spring."
Id., note.
It was also used as equivalent to grove:
"Unless it were
The nightingale among the thick-leaved spring."
Fletcher's Faith. Shep., v. 1.
where, however, it may be the coppice.
"This hand Sibylla's golden boughs to guard them,