To the c Reader. 



D r Priefti and fct forth by M 



Now this tranflation became the ground- worke 



Worke 



he changes the generall method of Dodon&M) into that of £06;/, and therein almoft all 

 ouer followes his Icoves both in method and names 3 as you may plainly fee in the GrafTes 



and Ore hides* 



of the orf du er fan a ; and fome 



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to this hiftory figures were wranting,which alfo M} Norton procured from Frankfort, be- 



Works 



fecmes) hauing no great iudgment in them, frequent- 

 ly put one for another : and befides there were many plants in thofe Authors which hee 

 followed,which were not inTabornamotitaMdj^nd diuers in him which they wanted^ne' 

 put them altogether, and one for another • and oft times by this meanes'fo confounded 



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errors. 



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places 1 helped by putting out 3 as the Kindes in the Chapter of Stonecrop, wheare there 

 was but one mentioned. 1 haue alfo put out the Kindes in diuers places elfe where,thcy 

 were not very necefTary, by this meanes to get more room e for thingsjmoreneceffarie: 

 as alfodiuers figures and defcriptions which wereput in twoor three places,! haue put 



that 



out 



to mention. Sometimes I mended what was amiffe or defe&iue, by altering 01 addin^ 

 one or more words, as you may frequently obferue, if you compare the former Edition 

 with this,in lbme few chapters almoft in any place. But I thinke I (ball beft fatisfie you 

 it Ibriefely fpecifiewhat isdoneineach particular, hauing firft acquainted you with 

 what my generali intention was: I determined,as well as the (hortnefleofmy time would 

 giue me leaue,to retaine and fet forth whatfoeuer was formerly in the booke defcribed or 



(ft) 



figured by LoM, Dodoruw, or Clnfi 



mer. 



gures we made vfe of. and alfo fuch plants as grow either wilde,or vfually in the gardens 

 of this Kingdome, which were not mentioned by any of the forenamed Authors ; for I 

 neither thought it fit nor requifite for me, ambitioufly to aime at all that Banbtnem his 

 Pinax reckons vp,or the Exotickes of Profter Alpine containe, not mentioned in the for- 



Tbis was my generall intention. Now come I to perticulars,and firft of figures: 

 I haue,as I faid,made vfe of thofe wherewith the Workes of Dodon*m y Lobel, and Cluftut 

 were formerly printed,which though fomc of them be not fo fightly.yet are they general 

 Jy as truly expreft,and fometiraes more.When figures not agreeable to the defcriptions 

 ^vere formerly in any place, I giue you notice thereof with a marke of alreration before 

 the title, as alfo in the end of the Chapter • and if they were nor formerly in the booke, 

 then I giue youthemwith a marke of addition. Such as were formerly figured in the 

 booke, though put for other things ; and fo hauing no defcription therein, I haue caufed 

 to be new cut and put into their fit place^with defcriptions to them,and only a marke of 

 alteration. The next arc the defcriptions,wbich I haue in fome places lightly amended, 

 without giuingany notice thereof; but when it is much altered, then giue I you this 

 marke -f at the beginning thereof s but if it were fuch as that I could not helpe it but by 

 writing a new one, then fhall you finde it with this marke t at the beginning and end 

 thereof, as alfo whatfoeuer is added in the whole booke, either in defcription or other- 

 wile. The next is the Place, which I haue fcldome altered, yet in fome places fupplied, 

 and in others I haue put doubts,& do fufped otherfome to be falfe,which becaufe I had 

 iiot yet viewed I left as I found. The Time was a thing of no fuch moment,for any mat- 

 ter worth mentioning to be performed vpon, wherefore I will not infi ft vpon it. Names 

 are or great importance, and in them I fhould haue bin a little morecurious if I had had 

 more time, as you may fee I at the firft haue beene , but finding it a troublefomc worke, 

 1 naue only afterwards where I iudged it moft needfull infifted vpon it : Bauhwm his Pi- 



fiHnG Y A f P Y "J? yOU in chis kinde finde wanting. In many places of this worke you 

 inaii tinde large difcourfes and fometimes controuerfies handled by our Author in the 



*nAh' ' hcleare for the moft part out of Dodentusfr fome of them were fo abbreuiatcd, 

 ana t>y rnat meanes confounded,that I thought it not worth my paines to mend them/o 



* uaueput tHem out m fome few places,and referred you to the places in j)^« out of 

 *" * - • '• s which 



