The Crowne of All Homers Workes/The Pine
Appearance
The Pine.
ny Tree else, beares better Fruit then Thee,That Idas Tops sustaine; where euery TreeBeares vp in aire, such perspirable Heights,And in which, Caues, and sinuous ReceiptsCreepe, in such great abundance. For, aboutThy rootes (that euer, all thy Fruites put outAs nourisht by them, equall with thy Fruites)Poure Mars his Iron-Mines their accust pursuites.So that when any Earth-encroching ManOf all the Martiall Broode Cebrenian;Plead neede of Iron; They are certaine still,About thy Rootes, to satiate euery Will.