: The nineteentyBgoke of oe 
maine faile thereupon yunle(fe we fet-up faile upon failestopand top.gallant sanlelfedd fea keve fore G 
Sailes and (prit-fatlesin the Prow.mifns alfo boifed up and di{plaiedenthe poupe ; befides other trinkets 
and more cloth ftill : and all to {et us more forward upon our death, and to baflen our end. Finally,is 
there ought againe{o admirable ,as that of fo {mall azraine asis the Lidefeed, there flould grow that 
which is able to carrie too and fro in a moment this round globe of the earth; the fame being fo flender 
a flalke as it is,and not growing high from the ground? confidering withall,that twifledit is not entire 
and whole in the fem : but before it. can bee occupied, it mufi.bee wateredy dried, braked, “tew-tawed, 
and with much labour driven and reduced in theend to bee as {oft and tender as wooll: anid ail to doe 
vielence to nature and mankind moft audacionfly évenin the highef degree, in uch (ort, asia man is 
wot able to proceed fo farre in execration as is due api Tavention, The firft devifer whereof Ihave 
inveighed againftin convenient placeelewhere,antinot withoutdefert :.as whocould not bee content, 
that a man [hould die upon the land but he muft perifh apes thefea,tofeed hadockes there, without the 
honour of fepultare.In the booke but next before this, 1 Gave warming and advertifed men,That far te 
enjoy corne and other victuals neceffarie for this life in [ufifance and pleutie,wee fhould beware of wind 
aud raine, And now behold, man is fo wicked and ungracious his wit foinventive,that he will be fow- 
ing tending and plucking that with bis own hand which cals for nothing elfe at fea but Wind; and ne- 
ver refis ill Buraing bee come. See moreover how well this anhappie hand of bis {peeds for thereis not 
4 plant.againe commeth up {ooner yor thriveth fafter than this Flax . And to conclude, that wee may 
know how Nature her felfeis nothing well pleafed therewith, and that it groweth mauere her will, It 
burnes the field wherein it is fowedsit cateth out the heart of the ground,and maketh it worfe,wherefa- 
ever it comes sthisisall the good it doth uponaland. | | \ 
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ef The manner of fowing Line or Flax: the fundrie kinds thereof. T he order howto areffe 
it, Alfo of Napkins and other Naperie, Of Flax and Linnen that will not burne 
in the fire, And when the T heatres or Shew-places at Rowe were 
Sir encourtained, F 
[Ine-feed loveth gravelly or fandie grounds paffing well, and commionly is fow- 
 edwith one tilth.and no more: yet is there nothing maketh more haft to be 
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| above ground, orfooner commeth to maturitie. Being fowne in Spring, itis | 
*For that fo 4 pluckt in Summer:See how “injurious flill itis to the earth even this way alfo] 
qpecty rok Zy\ Well, fay tharthe Zgpytians in fome fortmay be excufed, for fowing it as 
Herne: they do,and making faile- cloth thereof; in regard of the neceflarie wafticke, 
they have into Arabia and India,for to fetch in the commodities of thofe countries;what need 
or reafon I pray you hath Fraunce fo to doe ?Can the Gaules be forted in the fame faunge with 
the Egyptians ? Whether would they goe? Is it not fufficient that they fee the mightie fhoun- 
taines {tanding juft betweene them and the Mediterranean fea? Will notthisferve to keep them 
from Navigation, that on the huge Ocean fide,thgy can difcover nothing bur the vaft elements 
of Water and Aire together ? Howbeit, for all this reftraint, the Cadurci, Caletes, Rutene, and ~ 
Bituriges ;the Morini alfo who are fuppofed to be the fartheft people inhabiting our continent, 
yea,and throughoutall pares of Fraunce they weave line and make failes therof. And now adaies 
alfo the Flemmings and Hollanders dwelling beyond the Rhene (Imeane thofe ancient ene- 
*Iefcemeth imiestothe State of our Empire) dothelike: *infomuch, asthe women there cannot devife to 
ae one uel goeimore rich and coftly in their apparell,than to weare fine Linnen. The obfervation whereof 
land cloth and Ra NTE ; A 
Cambrick was putteth me in mind of athing that #2./arro doth report of the whole race and familie of the 
i requeftby — Serrani:in which houfe this order was precifely kept, That there wasnot a woman among them » 
P&nics time, . : ‘ 2 
knowne to weare any Linnen about her, not fomuch as in afmocke next her bare skin, Now in 
Gerinanie,thefpinners and weavers of Linnen,doe all their worke in {hrouds, caves, andvaults, 
buried(asit were) under the ground : fo doe they alfo in Italieand that part of Lumbardie that 
"Regione ada lieth betweene the Po and Ticinus, to wit, inthe *countrey Aliana ;where (after the Setabines 
reTuracb, — in Caftile,which is the beft)there is very fine workmanfhip of Linnen cloth,and may deferve the 
third place for goodneffe,throughout all Evrope. For the Retovines, bordering hard upon the 
forefaid Allianes,and the Faventnes who inhabite the broad port- way Aimilia, are to bee raun- 
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