

The Epiftle to the QueeneJ 



counted worthic of admiration and honor ; but euen Salomon 

 that roiall and vife King, for that he had the knowledge of 

 the natures of Plants, and was able to difpute thereof, from 

 the higheft to the loweft/rom the Cedar in Lihamn to the Hy- 

 fope that fpringeth out of the wall, is therefore in the facred 

 Bible highlie dignified and renowmed. I will fay nothing of i.Reg^ 



iJ^tthridates,Lyfmachus,GetitiHSi^rtemijta,2Xid. fuch noble and , 



mightie Princes, whofe delight and liking towards this know- 

 ledge of the nature of Plants was fuch, that as by their dili- 

 gent inquifition they wittily found out the vfe of manie of 

 them ; fo,hauing found thciame,they difdained not to deno- 

 minate and impart thereto their owne names, which euen to 

 this day manie of them do flill retaine. But arguments 



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moft excellent Maieftie needleffc 



bicaufc your Highnes is daily conuerfant 

 in the moft cleerc light of all both diuine and humane know- 

 ledge, whereby you far re more eafily fee the whole compafle, 

 than men of meane eftate are able to conceiuc apart : as alfo 

 for that the profeiTors of this facultiebe with your Highnes 

 had in fuch price and eftimation, that they are notonelie by 

 your Maieftie and your moft noble Progenitors, with fundric 

 priuileges and liberties endowed, with manie and great fti- 

 pends &penfionsin your Graces Vniuerfitics and Schooles 

 fofteredand maintained : but alfo as they (hall be founde to 

 haue laudably profited therein, fo are they aduanced and cal- 

 led to the charge of your perfon, and of the perfons of your 

 Nobles, And art being by honor nouri{hed,encreafeth daily, 

 and putteth all men out of doubt, that they which fo im brace 

 the profeiTors thereof, do both well like and thinke of the fa- 

 cultic, and fufficiently vnderftand both the vfe and the excel- 

 Icncie thereof. As touching the Author of this worke which I 

 haue tranflated, howpainmll a man he is, how skilfull, and 

 how luckily he hath atchieued this his bufines, as it (hall beft 

 appeere by diligent reading ouer his works : fo alfo may it ea- 

 fily be knowen by the tcftimonics and iudgements of the 

 inoft learned Phyfitions of this age. Of whom, fome 



their ownc works alrcadie cxtant,notable and 



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