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tﬂs Si Mitbridates the great was famous for his knowledge her ein,as Phlu-= mrcb noteth. Euax alfo King of Arabra,the happy garden of the world _for rm- cipall Simples,wrot of this argumengas Pliny fheweth. i)zocIqﬁ'an l1l.revv1{_e,m1ght ham; had his P1-aife,had he not drowned all his honour in the blond of l'l1S crie- cution. To conclude this point, the example of Solomon is before the reit, and gfc3[er’whofe wifdome and ltnowledge was fuch, that hee was ‘able to fer out the nature ofall plants from the highefi: Cedar to the loweit Molle. But my yety good Lord,that which {ometimc was the Ptudy of great Phylofophers and migh- ﬁe Pyinc.es,is now negleétedpxccpt it be of fame few,who{e {pirit and wifdome hath carried them among other parts ofwifdome and co unfellgto a care and {to- die off eciall‘herbes,both for the furniihing of their garden s,and furtherance of thcir knowleclge:among whom I may iuitly afﬁrme and publtfh your Honor to be one,being my felle one of your feruants,and a long time wrtnefle thereof: for vnder your lordﬂiip l haue ferued,and that way emploied my pnncxpall Ptudy and almoli: all my time,now by rhefpace of twenty yearesr 'I:o the large and ﬁn- gular furniture of this noble lfland 1 haue added from ‘forreme places all the va- ﬁctie ofherbcs ancl ﬂoures thatl might any way obtame, I haue laboured with thc {one :0 make it fit for plants, and with the plants, that they might delight in the foils, that {o they might line and profper vnder our clymat, as in their natiuc and proper countrey : what my tucceﬂe hath becne,and_what my furniture is, I leauem (113 report of they that haue feene your Lordfhrps gardens, and the lit- ¢lcPlot of myneowne efpeeiall care and husbandry._ .305 becauic gardens are Priuatsand many times ﬁndingatl ignorant or a negl1gent.fucceﬂo;,come foam,- to ?ruine,there’be that haue follrcited me,ﬁri’c by my pen, and after by the Preﬂe to make my labors ‘common,and to free them from the danger wherunto a gag- den is fubjcétz wherein when I was ouercome,and had brought th-is-Hiﬁort or “Port of the nature of P lants to a yuft volume, and had made It (as the Reader may by comparifon fee)ticher than forrnerl:lerbals,1 found it no que_fl:ion vmo whom I might dedicate my labors gfor conhdering your good Lord(h1p,I found none ofwhofc fauour and goodnes I might fooner pretum_e,{eeing I haue found you euer my very good Lord and Mailer.Agarne,conﬁder1ng my duty and your Honors merits, to whom may I better recommend my Labors,than to him vnto whom I owe my felfe, and all that I am able in your feruice or deuotion to per-‘—' forme 2 Therefore vnder hope of your Honorable and aecuftomed fauor I rce fentthis Herball to your Lordfhips protcétion 3 and not as an exquiﬁte work: (for I know my meanneITe)but as the greate{’t gift and chiefeﬁ: argument; of duty that my labour and feruice can aEoord:wherot if there be no otb erfruit,yet this is of fame vfe, that I haue miniﬁred Matter for Men of riper wits and deeper judgements to polifh,and to adde to my large additions where any thing is de--_ feéiiue, that in time the Worke may be perfe.‘.’c._ Thus I humbly take my leaue,' befceching God to grant you yet many daies to hue to his glory-,to the fupport of this State vnder her Majeﬂie our dread Soueraigne,and that with great increafe of honor in this world,and all fulneﬂe of glory in the world to come.

Your Lom'ﬂJz'ps mo/Z humble and obedient Seruamt,

1°33 GERARD-

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V M {ingularum medicinse partium eognitioatque intellié gentia libero homine. digna cenlenda cit ;" tumyearutn nullz‘ vel antiquitate,ve1 di.gnitate,vel vtilitatc,veldenique ia- cunditate cum ﬁirpitlnrcognirioné iure comparari debet, Antiquiﬂimam earn e(I'e ex eo liquet, qubd quurn ceterz metlicinae partes (licut reliquae etiam artes) ab ipﬁs homi- nibus (prout eos dura prefiit uece1‘ﬁtas)primum excogitatae 3; inuenta: fuerunt : fola herbarum arhorutnque cognitio ante hominem formatum conditaeidemquc mox creatoab i pfo mundi archite éto donata videri poteft. _Cuius tanta’ apud antiqua fecula exiltitnatio ac dignitas er‘at,vt 8: ipli-_- us inuentionem fapi'entifiimo' Deorum Apollini veteres gcs celeberrimi in ﬂirpium viribus indagandis ﬂudium laboremquelfuum e, fummaa libiapud poftcros laudi honorique fututurn c_enl'uerint. glam veré’ _ m vtilitas,atq; etiam neceHitas,adec‘; l.at<‘:,patet, vt eiusimrnenfitatem nullius vel acutrfﬁnii hominis animus eapere,ned um meus calamus exprirnere queat.Stirpium enirri c_0mplu‘rim_'ae nobis in cibos,alimentumque cedu‘nt:innutnerx aduerfns morbus rémedia m_PP€ditaBt:eX alijsdomos, naues, inftrumenta tam belliea quam ruliica fabricatnuss aliquot etiam earum vefies noftris corporibus fufominiﬁrant. In quibus lingulis receti-’ » fendts diutius petﬁﬂzere, hominis effet intempetanter abutentis 8: otio 8: literis. Quan-' gas autem 8: quam varias voluptates ex Ptirpium fine amoenitate oculis capiamus, ﬂue’

fagrantia naribus hauriamus, ﬁne furnma in earutn conditorem impietate inﬁeiari non §olf)l"umus,. Adeovt abfque ﬁrrpium one 8:, fublidio vita nobis ne vitalts qutdem haberi,-l e eat. V ’

_QL_1utn igitut res plantaria reliquis omnibus medicines partibus antiquitate antecedat; '31gmtate,nul1icedanvtilitate infuper obleéiationeque caeteras longt‘: fupetet,quis futu- ms eflt, adeo,aut infcnfatusyt non exploratum habeat, aut ingratus, vt non ingenue at 1 nofcat,qtranta vniuerﬁ-s Anglis commoda,quantafque voluptates tuus mi Gerard: in (hr- pmrn 1nue[’tiga'tione st cultu labor indefell‘us,{irudium inexhauftum,im.rnenliquefump; tus hoe de {iirpibus edito libro a1laturifurrt'.Maéte itaque iﬁa rua virtute, iﬁoque de re— Publrca bene merencli‘ ﬁudio, 8: quodinligni tua cum laude ingrefius es vettutis gloriae-i ‘1u'ec_urriculum,eidem inlifie animose‘8cgnauirer,neq-, :1 re plantaria pt-omouenda priui‘

eﬁﬁé. quam eam ate advmbilicum jam ferme produétam ipfe pleneiabfoluas atque fgﬁctas. _S"icen_in_1 8t tihi adlzitc fuperfiiti gloriam paries immortalem, 8: pol} obitun: nuﬁ:I‘I’1n tut nomtnts celebrttatem teltnques, vt tuarurn laudum opus pofteros noﬂros‘

quam capturaiitoblivio. Bene vale. Ex Aula Reginea Weﬂm. ipﬁs Cal. De? ‘ "°‘“b~‘ 1597? . e '

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