The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
noble Plants, and beantiful Flowers, [ome whereof 
have been heretofore handled by a renonned perfon of 
your Name, but,fince bis time,Nature bath difcove= 
red many new Varieties, not-known to former ages, as 
a 
: é 
E hope shortly will appear in your own Collettions, g/o- 
rioufly adorning your fpacious Garden, which 1. wifh 
may corre/pond, botbin Fafhion, and Farniture, with 
that noble Strusture:so which it appertaineths' 
~My Lord, when F confider the Nobility of your 
Extraftion and ‘deare | Relations, Ample Fortune, and 
ml mnt Expettations, the Excellence of. your Natural 
Inclinations, and the beautiful qualities you have ac- 
| quired | by a happy Education,refined by Foreign Tra- 
els to Jublime Perfection, T conclude this book as for- 
tunate ithe Dedication, as my hopes affure me of 
jour Protettion, Your noble Name as an Amulet is 
alone able to preferve it from the porfonous breath of | 
malicious Ignorance, and no Scioh(t dare prefame to 
Cen{ure what you {hall pleafe to Patroni~e, 
Accept then my Honoured Lord, this humble of - 
- fering, which pofibly may live to do you fervice, when | 
