Xll PREFACE. 



as he had measured out in his mind, and such as 

 really ought to be procured, which is, &quot; he says, &quot; a 

 great and royal work, requiring the purse of a prince, 

 and the assistance of a people.&quot; He, therefore, in 

 his presentation letter to the king, expresses his 

 anxiety for the compiling a Natural History, (^/) 

 and, he renews his solicitation in his next letter to 

 the king. ( t r) 



Copies of the work were presented 



To the King, 



To the University of Cambridge, 



To Sir Henry Wotton, and 



To Sir Edward Coke. 



The following are the letters of presentation and 

 the answers : 



To THE KING. 

 It may please your most excellent Majesty, 



IT being a thing to speak or write, specially to 

 a king, in public, another in private, although I have 

 dedicated a work, or rather a portion of a work, 

 which at last I have overcome, to your majesty by 

 a public epistle, where I speak to you in the hearing 

 of others ; yet I thought fit also humbly to seek ac 

 cess for the same, not so much to your person, as to 

 your judgment, by these private lines. 



The work, in what colours soever it may be set 

 forth, is no more but a new logic, teaching to invent 

 and judge by induction, as finding syllogism incom- 



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