it answers to selva.
When Milton makes his Eve say—
"While I
In yonder spring of roses intermix'd
With myrtles find what to redress till noon."
Par. Lost, ix. 217.
he had probably in his mind the cespuglio in the first canto of the Orlando Furioso; for spring had not been used in the sense of thickets, clumps, by any previous English poet. I am of opinion that spring occurs for the last time in our poetry in the following lines of Pope:
"See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings,
And heap'd with products of Sabæan springs."
Messiah, 93.