To the Reader. 



temwgft colours of antiquitic, when notwithftandtngthe world an brag of no more antient <Jlto»u 



mem than P.ir.idifc Mid the garden of Eden • and the Fruit? of the earth may contencLfor fenionu 



>r their CMetber was the firfl Creature that cennued, and tbey tbemfeluesthe firfi fruit j). 



de 



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ught forth . Talke of perfect happtncjfe or pteajure^and what place was fo fit for that as the 

 place •■: herein Adam wasfet to be the Herbarifl ? Whither did the Poets hunt for their ft 

 'igltifm: into the gardens ofi\klnom,of Adonis ,an 'd 't he Orchards oftbcHefperides>Wh 

 ith.y dreameth.tt heauen (houldbejut i» t he pleafwt garden of Ely fi urn ? Whither doe all m 

 Ike for their honeft recreation, but thither where the earth hath mofi beneficially painted herf, 

 thpurifking colours ? And what fiafon of the year e mere longed for than the Spring whofe ge 

 heath tnticcth forth the kindly fweets, and makes them yeeldt heir fdgrantfmzlls ? Who won 



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foretookc dtngerottjly -up at Pja»ets,tbat might fafely /coke downe at Plants ? And if 



' Q^ lu P rano V»hnadnos ; /^/>^ , Qureinf, 



,ea maximc ad nos. Eafie therefore is tbistreafuretobegaincd.andyetpretious. ihefciem 

 b/y fupported by wife and kingly Fauorits : the fubiecJ thereof fonecefarie and deleBablejthi 

 tng can be confecied/nher delicate for theufltjaintyforfmelljleafant fot -fight .wholfomefo 

 Sonfcmatiuc or reftoratiuefvr health J>ut it lonowctbthe rcttifh of an berbjbefiiuor of a flout 



faleafe.thejuiceofaptant^rthedecoctienofarooi. Andfucbistbetreafure thatthi 



Treattfe isfurmfi 



fated likcnejfe for lifrflafes andjhadowesforfuty 



tn* ready with the bad Painter to explaine the tmperfecJicns of my penfillwith my pen/chufiLra- 

 thcr to [core vpon my pictures fuch rude marks as may defer ibe my meaning tun to let the beholder 

 togucfc at random andmiffc. I haue here therefore fit downe not only the names of fun dry Plants^ 

 butalfi then natures their proportions andpropmics, their affects and effects, their intreafe and 

 decreafejheir fiounfhing and fading, tbetrdtftincl varieties and feueraS qualities, a< well of thofe 

 which our owne country yecldeth y as of others which I haue fetch, d further^ drawn out by LuCiL 



tin! , K f t, m oth % l ^^^reinno^ e fmy cLtryJen haue to mykLUe 

 takn any pames Since that excellent Worke of Mafter Doc7or Turner. Lifter which time Mat 



^^Mf^G^tUMmtrmfl^edlMoa^ut out of French intoEnglifh ; andfince that 

 nl«T^ n \ §f Z^ C9 ^ hab (« lhe «V ttanflattdthelafliddionfVotol 



TatlflTT f tft th f mt } ** B " n f t n * mei *y ***** <""P*»* MemfePerifhed. 

 ffllPJf '?#!*" Uafi amoN S^yMeprefumedtofe t firth Jo the view of tl Zlid 



thmkepfilfc well rewarded j otherwife there is no man I blhUmedblt my M%n^W«kil 

 7coJ£{! r )JI Jr m i mJ i thti "*' C0Ur f e : Di f cour f e ™' h * h htb fined and refinea Faults 



But as for the (lander er or EnvioZlTJr^i » T ^T tmg hAUt ^ ed W9rtk 3 reprehenfton. 





From my Houfe in Holbora^ithin the Suburb 



ofLondoiuhis firftof December r^ 



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Thj fencer e and wfeigned Friend, 



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