Letters Concerning Poetical Translations / And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.

by William Benson

"———Camposque, & flumina late

Curva tenent: ut molle siler, lentæque genistæ,

Populus, & glauca canentia fronde Salicta.

Pars autem posito surgunt de semine: ut altæ

Castaneæ; nemorumq; Jovi quæ maxima frondet

Esculus, atque habitæ Graiis oracula quercus.

Here are Siler and Genistæ, Populus and Salicta, Castaneæ and Esculus, and Quercus.

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Again,