10 and the plant thus struck has such power that with its virtue it impregnates the breeze, 111 and this then in its whirling scatters it around; and the rest of the earth, according as it is fit in itself, or through its sky, conceives and brings forth 114 of divers virtues divers trees. It should not appear on earth then a marvel, this being heard, when some plant 117 without apparent seed takes root there. And thou must know that the holy plain where thou art of every seed is full, and fruit has 120 within itself which yonder upon earth is never gathered. “The water which thou seest does not rise from a vein which condensed vapor by the frost restores, 123 like a stream that gains and loses breath; but it issues from a constant and sure fountain, which as much by the will of God regains 126 as it pours forth open on two sides. On this side with virtue it descends that takes from one the memory of sin; 129 on the other of every good deed it restores that. On this side Lethe, so on the other Eunoë it is called; and it works not 132 if on this side then on that first it be not tasted. To all other savors this is superior. And though fully may be sated 135 thy thirst even if I reveal no more to thee,
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