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their own wit, which I should charge upon myself as negli- 

 gence." Far be such self-sufficiency from me ! I am ever 

 glad to avail myself of the opinions and sentiments of others ; 

 and in so doing, to give the merit of originality to its rightful 

 owner, and not to a modern plagiarist. " Est enim benignum Piin. in Praefat. 



V'espas. 



ut arbitror, et plenum ingenui pudoris, fateri per quos pro- 

 feceris, non ut plerique ex iis, quos attigi, fecerunt. Scito 

 enim conferentem autores me deprehendisse a juratissimis et 

 proximis veteres transcriptos ad verbum, neque nominatos," &c. 



Forout of the old fieldis, asmen saith, ^^^'^?^'^' ^t 



sembl.oirowls. 

 Cometh all this new com from year to year ; 



And out of olde bookis, in good faith, 



Cometh all this new science that men lere. 



Few will think me sparing of citation : but if there be such 



a one, and well disposed to a brother courser, '' si bonus est, Ausonius Sym- 



macho.Griphus. 



quae omisi, non oblita mihi, sed prseterita existimet. Dehinc 

 qualiscunque est, cogitet secum, quam multa de his non 

 reperisset, si ipse qusesisset. Sciat enim me non omnibus 

 erutis usum ;" I hope he will not add with Ausonius, " et 

 quibusdam oblatis abusum." 



Should curiosity induce any one to inquire who is the trans- 

 lator of this treatise, let it suffice, that he is an humble indi- 

 vidual of retired habits, too utterly unknown to the world to 

 expect that any additional interest will be imparted to his 

 labours by the publication of the name of their author : — that 

 he is in the enjoyment of the ease and freedom of a private 

 scene, where, in the felicitous language of Sir W. Temple, 

 " a man may go his own way and his own pace :" — that his ^^ Gardening 



