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Book (Ang.-Saxon, boc; Danish, beuke; German, buche, a beech-tree).
“Here on my trunk’s surviving frame,
Carved many a long-forgotten name…
As love’s own altar, honour me:
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.”
Campbell: Beech Tree’s Petition.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.