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them is such that (as Plinie noteth) the very brute beasts 

 have found it out. What greater delight is there than to 

 behold the earth apparelled with plants as with a robe of 

 imbroidered worke set with orient pearles and garnished 

 with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? But these 

 delights are in the outward senses the principal delight is 

 in the minde singularly enriched with the Knowledge of 

 these visible things, setting forth to us the invisible wisdome 

 and admirable workmanship of almightie God." 



