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TO THE Rnann .

iifmrieoiu R E A n it it‘,

Here are many things which I thinke needfuil to impart vnto thee , both conccrnin theknowledge of Plants in generall,as alfo for the better ex- plaining 0%’ fome things pertinent’ to this prefent Hilioriqwilich Ihaue here let forth much amended and inlarged. For the general differences, aﬁ’e&ions,8zc. ofPlants,I hold it not now fo ﬁtting not neceffary for me

g *'_;.;.»-’’= * to inﬁii: vpon themsneither do I intend in any large difcourfe to fet forth

their many and great vies and vertues : giue me leaue onely to tell you, That God of his

infinite goodnefic and bounty hath by the mefimm of Plants , beﬁovved alrnoii allfood, c1othing,at1'd medicine vpon man. And to this oﬁrifpring we alfo owe (for the moit part) ‘ om. houfes—,rhippiiig,and inﬁnite other things,though lome of them Pfetfm‘-like haue run rhroughtdiuers ’fhapes,as this paper whereon IW1‘1t€,. that ﬁrﬁ from iced became Flaxe; then aft‘e’r’much vexation thread, then cloath, where it was cut and mangled to {erue the fa‘{hio‘ns of the time,but afterward reie&ed_ and cat”’raﬁde;yet vnwilling ft) to forfake the fclmicéof man for which God had created it,again it comes (as I;~may terme it) to the hgmrrrerjroin whence it takes a more noble form and aptitude to be imployed to facred, eiuill,forrein,‘and domeﬁicke vles. Iwill not fpeake of the many and various obieéts of

' other things which I could plenti-

funy in this kinde deliuers butrather acquaint you from what Fountaines this Know.

ledge may be drawne , by lhewingwhat Authours haue dehuered to vs the Hiiiorie of

Plants,and after what manner they haue done it. And this will be a meanes that many

controuerﬁes may be the more eafily vnderfiood by the leii°e learned and juditious Rea.

der.

He whole name we ﬁrii find vpon. record (though doubtleﬂe fame ha bgfm-g)r'h;1c largely writ of-P.iants,‘was the wifeﬁ <_)fmen,euen King So ,.,omo71,who certa,_i,n— ly would not haue medled with this fubie6’c,if he in his wifedome had not known it wor- thy himfelfe,and exceeding ﬁtting : Firii, for the honour of his Creator, whofe gifts and bleiiings thefe are: Secondly,f0r ti“? 9,005 Ofhls Sub je&s,whereof without doubt he in this Work had a fpeciall regard,for_thc curingof their difeafes and inﬁrmities,But this kingly Vvorke being lofhl w1l_ln0t1n{_i£ivpon it, but come to fuch as are yet extant, of which( following the courfe of antiquity) that of Té€(I.!//3J‘tt_/flat! ﬁrft takes place.

Now Tbﬁﬂlﬁbfzf/iw fuceeeded Arzﬂotle‘ in the gouernment of the Sehoole at Athens, a- bout the J in Olympnwliich vvasgfome 3 2 2 yeares before Chriit. He among many other thingswrit a H iiiorie ofi3lants in ten bo0kes,and of the caufes of‘them,eight bookes;of the former ten there are nine come to our hands reafonable perfeéhbut there now remain but fix of the eight of the caufes of Plants. Some looking vponr the Catalogue of the bookes of Theo}:/zraﬂm his writing, fer forth in his life wonder that they ﬁnde no mention of thefe b00kes

d treated thereof

-,written by Diagener Laertiua, may T H , . of Plants, amongft thefe he reckons vp,and iﬂdC§C,_1‘._I thbugbhllt (Oimewhlat1:irange‘s3ﬂd{O much the more, becaufe this his life is {gt fgygh by Dame! Heznﬁmgbefore his edition * 0fT12e(2]9lrr,<ﬂm, and there alfo no men, tion neither in the Greeke not Latine ofthofe VVorkes. Conﬁdering this,I thinking to ‘ was long ﬁnce cleared by the learned Cazifaéani infhis notesv on“ L4€7t““z Whefepng. 3;}, form: .umrr.,1,..a_. and .um~,ana., hee wiihes you‘tO*1'€3d€ !"=. rvtmrv ':rop«:v_ and «zinc?» Thus being certaine of the Authour, let mee fay fomwhat of the Vi/orke, which thoi_i.gh_b_y the iniury of time it hath fuffered much, yet is it one of the ehiefe pieces of Antiqttlm: 3 from whence the knowledge ofplantsis

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To the Reader. to be drawn.T/aroyziéraﬂwr as he followed Arrﬂoﬂc in the Schoo writing ; for according as /Irzﬂazle hath deliuered his £12]? forth this of Plants, not by writing ofeacli/jzecics in particular, but oft/ieir dz‘ rzamrejy their 11>./zrz's,.<z ﬁrffiazzs,r'cm:r;ii'iom,47m' /life. V‘v?l3iCh you in his {econ

dchaptegand renders you this reafon,B'c V Plant:

ya: the mantle and (56 [Q or to other liziiﬂg crezitzares you may learne the generall differences and affeét

particular knowledge ofany,without much labor 5 for

ther vp the deihiption ofone plant :neither doth he in this manner) make mention oi-‘any great nu \/Vorks being in Greeke were traniiated into L Gnec4ﬁn’t',fOr he omitted fome tliingsptherw

,c§Jr. Now by this manner of writing ions or Plat1ts,oLrt Cannot come to’ the you muit go to many places to ga- (nor is it neceﬂlirie for any writin .=*i'rber,and ofmany it may be but once.His atine by Tfmm/are G;z{iz, who did them but hiles rendred them contrarie to the minde _ ll, he took to himfelfe too much libertie in giuing ofnames, 111_ Imitation of the Greeke,or of his own inuention,when irhad been better by much for is Reader to haue had them in the Greeke 3 as when hee renders 'E?\arn;'pxM, odgitatoriﬂm 5 °HW§s'mar. Sa14rzJ:,dt5. The learned In/Tm; t_S'6;1[{{l,"7‘112l[l.1 fer forth miimadezerfzioner vpon thefe Books,wher_ein he hath both much explained the minrle of '1“/3eay>/3rx_/Zm, and fhewed the errors ofG.-Qt. Some finee his time haue prornifed to do fomething to this Authour,as Dam'c!_ F1c;?rz_{£: y yeares are pail ﬁnce, and I hauc not yet heard of

L5 and 5y£'igfc[iat5-,bt1t twent. _y any thing done in this kinda by either ofthem . Thus much for Tézeopbrizjlar.

Let me not palie ouer Arzﬂat/e,in ﬁle ut two,and theie accordin

g to the conjeéture ()'fIl£[1'lt5' Scalz'ger ( who hath made a large and curious examination 0 ‘

_ V fthem,liaue either periihed, or come to vs not as they were 0. ngmﬂlly written by Arzﬂotlc, but as they haue been by fome later man put into Greeke. Amongft other things Scalzfger hath thefc concerning thofe two bookes ; 1ieorZ’textri7izi ATlJ""P}:Wrzflz' (let;-aéih-zﬁ‘/4 qzmdézm, 6147105 addz‘ro.c,t.1mrr]z' neque 4!Wl’0.!',??(3q!I€]71t7:PlM’£’05 . god i ’P"‘"1_7m: dm‘07‘£’7I1 tzéi dari 1113‘ ad Ania/rm a'i/zgemilzm propim accedit, And afterwards thus 5 wtrrzbziere rt/iri 530471", alias alzj,zzt quid/em q/ii zzZzTa;'ii_m rzzicierem nibil Plmmlem zmtorcmﬁiciemi mnlzm aﬂiwzirz‘ 5 extant mim z'llz’z.«..v air}: in liéri: ﬁmii‘/it -7J€ft‘z'g'iA'_{c'7J,tz'/ziti77z'et4.t;:'5, oer. Thus much placed afterhis Scholler,becaui‘e there is firth doubt of

‘gr rfirzﬁwhom as you lee Ihaue , g f 6‘ bookes caried about in his name,and for that Scalzgegas you fee,thinlrs them rather “Ken Out ofTl/*eapbr2z,’im‘,than written by his Ma fter. 3. “bf? ﬂ€X_t_that orderly foll *0 Suzdaar) in the time o S3u10F.NOVV S ztidzzg hath co

_Y f0me places in G416

F Cleo/74trx1,yvhich was fome few yeares before the birth ofour nfounded "' D If vs was of the Em periek See’i,but the o

:d0C%=”:él}S He writ not only Oil?lar1ts,btrtzle tom nizirerzkz nz.ca’z‘m; to which {hidy he was mmmev Iepenhfrom his childehood, which made him trauell much ground, and leade _a on thatlf 1 Cr 6 betfff E0 accom~pli(li his‘en_ds 2 and lflﬂtills hee attained tothat perfetﬁi-_ is is it GW Ql;'n0D€11ﬂCt?h1Sgt1i1'l€ hane £1tta1ﬂ€Li~t0.0f the exellencie of his workgwhieh . ind yvere ti e foundation and g1'0’LIl1d—_VVOi‘i{t’3 or all that hath bin iince d*eliu’eredin' this timeee 151?‘? What G4/cn,one or theexceii ﬁ . Wimgtot :1/s fil,ldy?3fﬁl‘I1]CS:B:'H‘ (iaith he) the ﬂﬂtzzffdﬂdﬂ Dioicorides mﬁrie éoakr: /mil; Fmm ye ncctﬂary matter of tﬁttclirz-rte, not at/zcly making merztzarz qfHeréer,but 41/5 ofTree:, m 71 , ' iqaorr andlt/yrcr,ru iziﬂa of 417 tﬂliﬁdrdlf ‘ _ N I. V 7 6 “Plume /15 /14! bwztb t/ycgrenteﬂ perfeﬂzanytrﬂrmed this n:zm’:c of the matter ofMedzcmcI; m /muenzritmz we/Z e pars t/1:’; S14!/inf?“ , yet mime /miemrzltﬁ) well of all. lows not the method of Temp/1.but treats of each herb in partictrlar, mes,then the defcription,and then the place where they vfually grow, as age Rafe _ rtues. Yet offome,whiclias then were as frequently known withthem‘ . ﬂzéic aS!i'£):}X‘y,3U Afh oroke tree are with vs, he hath omitted the defcriptions as vn—‘ to bee “at D fie at that time when they were fo vii-lgarly known they might feeme {ob Conieéur nor; wee know the lcaft of thefe, and haue no certaintie, but fome probable: not methtfs ‘b0 1'95? VS toytbc knowledge ofthem. He was not curious about his words ta“ knowlecal it plainly and truly deliiiered that whereof he had cert.-zine and cxpeflfyflﬁlglfy mod he obre El gdCOgC€l‘ﬂln%i thje dfef Cffl prion and nature of Plants. But the gb;en[erall me-__ dimy after the P Yfu may it eﬂet orth by B414/J5ﬂ£‘,1n his €d1t10n.Of(,M4fI. /9 !£5.1fi1[I1€-' or mein this I re aceo the ﬁr booke ; whcreto I» refer the Curious , being too long- mm {M gr . p ace to inﬁftvpom. H is Works that are come to vs are ﬂue Booksa/e" ma-I " 15-4. One De letalzém ercrzema‘, eormrzq; ]>i‘¢e£4r!;’l!£?m.’ air mmtzomu Ar10ther,De cant

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row iliﬂorides fol v giuing the Na and lafily theirve

oz;-,4] £’t]Jt”)’€’ is ,rza,f/mag cmzmom to 4/!

le fo alfo in his manner of i am: aimalzmw, (0 hath he fet yferemes aim’ Tlreopiyf-.§iﬁ, how hard a thing it was he tells 1”’"”“’“P"“

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nee, though his bookes" writ of this fubieét were Arirtaxzc;

owes i-s Pecl4cimD/ofc‘aria’e: Ar-mzizrécur, who liued ( acco’r- Diaftarides.‘

ioﬁoride: A”4{:4r£eI‘5 with Diq[t'orz'i¥c=: Plzamgbtlt A..mp,J=} Ms-

22 on ma fee the were different men: for our Anazarbean Dio co- -f¢,,,.,,”g..,, M,.». Y Y , _ ther was a follower ofﬂeropliylns and of the R‘a- (N-Wde

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_ _ ,_ , , . '1): in I. ﬂied; enteii ofPhys.’itians, and one who i pent no ﬁn8l‘f4¢,5;_£h_5. pracm.

,a;m’pf t/ac parts of lining Creature: .- and in xltﬁv ’9T“'5W7’4'