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Dignum Regia Majestate animum, O me felicera, si Deus non 

 ante et Kneuettum et Regem absLulisset, quam reversus ab hoc 

 peregrinatione fuissem, &c." 



" But as the purpose of David the king to build a house and 

 temple to God was accepted, although Solomon performed it; so 



1 make no question, but that the zeal in this matter, of the afore- 

 said most renowned prince, may seem no less worthy (in his kind) 

 of acceptation, although reserved for the person of our Solomon, 

 her gracious majesty; whom I fear not to pronounce to have re- 

 ceived the same heroical spirit, and most honourable disposition, 

 as an inheritance from her famous father. 



". Whereas in the course of this history, often mention is made 

 of many beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, plants, fruits, herbs, roots, 

 apparel, armour, boats, and such other rare and strange curiosities, 

 which wise men take great pleasure to read of, but much more 

 contentment to see; herein I myself to my singular delight have 

 been as it were ravished in beholding all the premises gathered toge- 

 ther with no small cost, and preserved with no little diligence, in 

 the excellent cabinets of my very worshipful and learned friends 

 Master Richard Garthe, one of the clerks of the petty-bags; and 

 Master "William Cope, gentleman-usher to the right honourable 

 and most prudent councellor (the Seneca of our Common-wealth) 

 the Lord Burleigh, High Treasurer of England. 



" This being the sum of those things which I thought good to 

 admonish thee of, good reader, it remaineth that thou take the 

 profit and pleasure of the work; which I wish to be as "real to 

 thee, as my pains and labour have been, in bringing these rare 



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