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1Mb.*, the very brute beads haue found it out: and (which is another vfe that he obferueth) 



iKt..».f rom thence the Diars tooke the beginning of their art. 



Furthermore, the neceflai the earth doth plainly appeerc 



by the great charge and care of almoft all men in planting and maintaining of gar- 

 dens, not as ornaments onely, but as a nece icir houfes. And 

 here befide the fruit, to fpea; I ghtj gardens, efpecially fuch as 



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a man doth behold a flourifl middeft of winters 



force,and a goodly fpring of flowers, when abroad a leafe isnottobefeenc. Befide 

 thefe and other caufes, there are many examples ofthofethat haue- honored thisfci- 

 ence tfortopaflebyamulti ,it may plcafe your Honor to call 



toremembra it haue ioyned this 



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""''' Diocletian might he haue his praife, had he not drowned all his honorin the blood 

 ofhisperfecution. To conclude this point, the example of Salomon is before the reft 

 and greater, whole whedome and knowledge w 



is now ncgletl:ed,except it be of fi itl i carried them 



amongother partes ofwifedome and counfell, to a care anditudieof fp 



both for the furnifhing of their gardens, and the furtherance of their knowledge : 



among whome I may iuftly affirme and publifh your Honor to be one, b 



one of your feruants,and a longtime witnefie thereof: for vnderyour Lordfhip I haue 



ferued, and that time now by the 



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added from forn ] :of herbesand flowers that I mi 



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to make them to delight in thefoile, that fo they might liue and profper vnder our 

 climate, as in their natiue and proper countrie: what my fuccefle hath bcenc, and what 

 is, Ueaueto the report of them that haue feene your Lordfhips gardens, 

 and the little plot of my fpeciall care and husbandrie. But bicaufe gardens arepriuate, 

 and many times finding an ignorant or a negligent fiicceflor,comc foone to ruine,there 

 bethathauefollicitedme firftbymypen, and after by the Prefle, to make my labours 

 common, and to free them fro 



whenlwasouercome, and had brought diishiftorie, orreportof the nature of plants 

 to a iuftvolume, and had made it, astheRcader may by comparifon ice. 

 former Herbals, I found it no queftion to whome I might dedicate my labours : for 

 confidering of your good Lordlhip, I found noneof whofe fauourand goodneflel 

 might foonerprefume, feeing I haue found you euer my very good Lord and Matter. 

 Againe, confidering my dutie and your Honors merits, to whom may I better recom- 

 mend my labours than tohim, towhomelowe my felfe, and all that I am able in any 



