fiaifli my boc 



Parifc the onely man,being recommended to me by that famous man M. Amb.Pareys, 

 and he being here was defirous to go abroad with ibme of our herbai ills,! 



igoutabooke that to this dayneuerany in what language fceuerdidthe 

 taken the one for the other; . t of plants now 



: ■■;.:.; 



did write,he fhould haue fped as well as he did : For(faith he)I had fo great a deixc encr 

 y booke, that I i i he publike good, 



othinkeh > • Ineue caried 



out, butthatbyGods ftirringvp the Emperor Ferdinando of famous mcinorie, and 



There haue beenealfo other Princes of Almaine, which haue beene liberal! 



his booke; and the moft excellent I ■ Duke of Saxo- 



irmehis poftewith much money toward my charges. The I 



Gcence towards me, Icannot commend fufficicntly. They 



Rhine, and the excellent Ioachim Marques of Brandeberg, which much fuppliedmy 

 wants ; and the like did the reuerend Cardinall and Prince of Trent, am! ? 

 Archbifhop of Saltzperg, the excellent Duke of Bauare, and the Duke of Cleues, the 

 Duke Megapolencis Prince of Vandalis,the ftate Republike of Noremb. i 



im ought to be celebrated for euer : and it doth much reioice me that 1 had 

 the helpe and reward of Emperors,Kings,Eleaors of the Romane Empire, 

 CardinalsjBiihops, Dukes and Princes ; for it giueth more credite to our 1 , 

 any thing that can be faid. Thus far Mathiolus his owne writing of the li . 

 Princes towards him. What age do we Hue in! tuetogovnre- 



warded ? Mafter Gerard hath taken more paines than euer Mathiolus did in his Com- 

 mentarie s,and hath corrected a number of faults that he paffed ouer,and I dare affirme 

 in reuerence be it fpoken of that excellent man,that Mafter Gerard doth knowe a great 

 number of fimples that were not knoweninhi hethcr he (hall 



tafte of the liberalitie of either Princc,D uke,E arle,Bi(hop,or publike eftate. Let a man 

 excell neuer fo much in any excellent knowledge, and he is n 

 iefter, a boafter, a quackfaluer of mounte b ; n can flatter, 



diffemble, make of trifles great matters, in praifing of this rare fecret, or that 

 excellent (j nnteflence; which when it 



(hall come to the triall, nothing fhall be found 

 butboaftingwordes. 



