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“To the Reader. 
ftudy to be experienced in this laudable art of Simpling, of 
which I have already publifhed a Treacife, neither have | per- 
{ued this imployment only for the private contentment that I 
received thereby , muc'? ‘fle our ofa greedineffe of gaine 
but from a Zealeto the puwi.que good, as having obferved , 
that through the ignorance and negligence of pretenders to 
the knowledge of this art, fundry unhanfome,dytafters to have 
~ happened to the ruine of many , and among{t thofe, tofome 
that deferved moft of their Country. Had Solomon thac great 
_ proficient inall{ublunary experiments preferved thofc ep 
volumes that he wrote in thiskind, for the infractions of 
ture ages, (fogreat was that fpatiouf{nefle of mind, that God. 
had beftowed on him) thar he had immediately undcr the 
_ Deity been the greateft of Dogtors, for the prefervation of 
mankind : But wath the lofle of his Books fo much lamented by, 
the Rabbines and others, the beft parc of this Herbarary are 
hath fince groaned under the defeéts of many unworthy Au- 
‘thors, and yet! remaines under divers Clouds.and imperte@i- 
ons, The truth is though it be neceflary fora man to know. 
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———__—-- and Jearneall Sciences, neverthelefie the knowledge ofna- 
turall Philofophy ought.to be moft: eficemed, as. beins no. 
fefull then furnith divith. all admirable delights ,..she- 
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