To bis Meaieftie. 
g Hele dayes paftl wroteabookeof 
= all thinges which come from your 
Occidental Indias , feruing for the 
g vieof Medicine, and furely it hath 
A 2% beene taken in that eſtimation, that 
the thinges which in it are intreated 
ot doc deſerue. And ſeeing the pro- 
ite that it hath done, and how ma- 
5 ny haue beene remedyed and he- 
led with thofe remedies, I dyd determine to proceede ae 
for wardes, and to write of the thinges, which after that 
_ the firftpare was written, haue come from thoſe countries 
ofthe which I haue vndetſtood. that no leſſe vgilitie & RS 
fite thal come, then of thofe whichare paſt, for there fhal- 
be diſcouered ne we thinges and fecrets, which wülbring 
admiration, neuer to this day ſeene nor knowne before. 
And ſeeing that theſe medicinall thinges which We doe 
treate of, and the Realmes, and Countries from whence 
they come, belong vnto your Maicfti and he alſo that 
writeth of them is your Maieſties ſubiect: doe de- 
tre your Maieſtie, to receiue thistrauell into 
our protection, and that the rewarde 
ay be ſuch, as for the like vor 
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