





Parens ; and he being here was defirous to goe abroad with forae of our Herba- 

 ria s, for che which I was the means to bring them together, and one whole day 

 we fpenc herein, fearching the rareft Simples : but when it came to the trial J,my 

 French man did not I*now one to his foure. What doth this man deferue thajt 

 hath caken (o much paines for his countrey, in fetting out a Booke, that to this 

 day, neuer any in what language foeuer did the like . ? Firft, for correcTang their 

 faults in fo many hundred places, being falfly named, miftaken the one foir the 

 other ; and then the pictures ofa great number of plants now newly cur.If this 

 man had taken this paines in Italy and Germany where Mittbiolus did write, he 

 (hould haue fped as well as he did : For(Taith hejl had To great a defire euer to fi- 

 nifti my Book, that I neuer regarded any thing in refpe<5t, of the publique good, 

 not fo much as to think ho w I (hould finifh (o great a charge, which I had neuer 

 carried out,but that by Gods ftirring vp of the renowned Emperour Ferdinando 

 of famous memorie, and the excellent Princes had not helped mee with great 

 fums of money,fo that the common wealth may fay, That this blefling doth ra- 

 ther proceed of them than from me. There haue beene alfo other Princes of Al- 

 main,which haue been liberal in the preferring of this Book,and the mod excel- 

 lent Eleclor of the Empire the Duke of Saxony ,which fent me by his Poft much 

 mony toward my charges : the liberalise of the which, & their magnificence to- 

 ward me I cannot commend fufficiently. They which followed in their liberali- 

 tie were the excellent Fredericke Count Palatine of the Rhine, and the excellent - 



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which much fupplicd my wants : and the life 



did rhe reuerend Cardinal! and Prince of Trent, and the Excellent Archbifliop 



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ofVandalis, the State Republiquepf Norcmberg, the liberalitie of 



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the help and reward of Emperors,King selectors of the Roman Empire, Arch 

 dukes, Cardinalls,Bifhops, Dukes and Princes, for it giveth more credit to our 

 Labors that any thing that can be faid. Thus far Mattbwhts his owne writing of 

 the liberalitie of P rinces towards him. What age do we liue in here that wilfaf- 

 fer all vertue to go vnrewarded?Mafter gerrardhzth taken more pains than euer 

 Matthiohts did in his Commentaries, and hath corrected a number of faults that 

 he pafled ouer ; and I dare amrme (in rcuerence be it fpoken to that Excellent 



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Jmownein his time: and yet I doubt whether he (hall tafte of the liberalitie of 

 either Prince, Duke, Earle, Bifhop, or publique Eftate Let a man excell neuer 

 fo much in any excellent knowledge, neuei theles many times he is not fo much 

 regarded as a Iefter,a Boafter,a Quack/alucr or Mountebahke : for fuch kinde of 



men can flatter, diffemble, mak 



f?es great matters, in praifing of this 



et,or that excellent fpirit,er this Elixer or Quinteflen 

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