1 did

2 Cf. Paradise Lost, I. 292-294. 3 yew

"This tree list is, in fact, a great curiosity. It was started by Ovid, Metam. x. 90; after whom it appears in Seneca, Oedipus, 532; in Lucan, Phars. iii. 440; in Statius, Thebaid, vi. 98; and in Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae, ii, 107. Statius was followed by Boccaccio, Tes. xi. 22-4: Rom. de la Rose, 1361; Chaucer (twice); Tasso, Gier. Lib. iii, 73; and Spenser. Cf. Vergil, Aen. vi. 179."-Skeat, Chaucer. A comparison with Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, 176-82, is interesting.

The bilder ook, and eek the hardy asshe;
The piler elm, the cofre unto careyne;
The boxtree piper; holm to whippes lasshe;
The sayling firr; the cipres, deth to pleyne;
The sheter ew, the asp for shaftes pleyne;
The olyve of pees, and eek the drunken vyne,
The victor palm, the laurer to deveyne.