And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
And sadde yerdis weren maad to it in to septris of lordis, and þe stature þerof was enhaunsid among boowis; and it siy his hiynesse in þe multitude of hise siouns.