ingit adoptivus virginis ora pudor.

{313:1} Carol. _Avanti_ not. in cornan. Bapt. Fiera.

{313:2}

Tu sacros Phoebi tripodas, tu sidera sentis,
Et casus aperis rerum praesaga futuros.
Te juvat armorum strepitus, clangorque tubarum;
Perque acies medias, saevique pericula belli,
Accendis bellantum animos; te Cynthius ipse,
Te Musae, vatesque sacri optavere coronam:
Ipsa suis virtus te spem proponit alumnis,
Tantum servatus valuit pudor, & bona fama.

Rapinus.

{313:3} _Daphnephagi_ were such as after eating the leaves of the bay,
became inspir'd.

CHAPTER VII.

_Of the infirmities of trees, &c._

So many are the infirmities and sicknesses of trees, and indeed of the
whole family of vegetables, that it were almost impossible to enumerate
and make a just catalogue of them; and as difficult to such infallible
cures and remedies as could be desired; the effects arising from so
many, and such different causes: Whenever therefore our trees and plants
fail and come short of the fruit and productions we expect of them, (if
the fault be not in our want of care) it is certainly to be attributed
to those infirmities, to which all elementary things are obnoxious,
either from the nature of the things themselves, and in themselves, or
from some outward injury, not only through their being unskilfully
cultivated by men, and expos'd to hurtful beasts, but subject to be
prey'd upon and ruin'd by the most minute and despicable insect, besides
other casualties and accidents innumerable, according to the rustick
rhyme,

The calf, the wind-shoc and the knot,
The canker, scab, scurf, sap and rot,

affecting the several parts: These invade the roots; stony and rocky
grounds, ivy, and all climbers, weeds, suckers, fern, wet, mice, moles,
winds, &c. to these may be added siderations, pestiferous air, fogs,
excessive heat, sulphurous and arsenic smoak, and vapours, and other
plagues, tumours, distortions, lacrymations, _tophi_, gouts, carbuncles,
ulcers, crudities, fungosities, gangreens, and an army more, whereof
some are hardly discernable, yet enemies, which not foreseen, makes many
a bargain of standing-wood (though seemingly fair) very costly ware: In
a word, whatsoever is exitial to men, is so to trees; for the aversion
of which, they had of old recourse to the _robigalia_ and other Gentile
ceremonies: but no longer abus'd by charmers and superstitious
fopperies, we have in