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honestie, comelinesse, and all kinds of vertues. For it 

 would be an unseemely and filthie thing, as a certaine wise 

 man saith, for him that doth looke upon and handle fair and 

 beautifull things, and who frequenteth and is conversant in 

 faire and beautifull places, to have his minde not faire but 

 filthie and deformed ? 



Gerard gives the Latin name of the water 

 violet, Viola palustris, which at any rate is 

 pretty, if a little misleading ; and I confess I 

 do not see that " Hottonia," which is derived 

 from a botanist's name, is a bit more appro- 

 priate to the plant. 



Gerard's book would be quite satisfactory 

 enough for any one of my disposition, were it 

 not so very large and cumbersome, and rather 

 badly indexed. The illustrations, though 

 rough, are generally very accurate and fine 

 specimens of the art of woodcutting of the 



period. 



G. D. L. 



