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4. The two and twentieth Booke 
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THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE, 
WRIT TR NB Y.«.Gab-L. LN oon 
SECVNDYS. 
The Proéme. “a 
2 TS, S5yG es Man would thinke,who did but readthe Warmer booke,that dame Nature and 
f ey EY\ SNA the Earth both rad done their parts and {hewed their wonderfull perfeition fiuf- 
oa * PANS eS ficiently;if be confidered withall the admirable vertues of fo many bearbs which 
@ they have brought forth and bestowed upon mankind,as well for pleafare as pro- 4 
a \ fit. But fee what adealeof riches moreis yet behind ; and bow thefameas it is 
~2e harder to be found, foit isin effect more miraculoys\ Asfor thofe fixmples wher- 
$0 CENSAS CB of wee have alreadie written, for the moff part they are fuchas have ferved our 
turneat the bourd: or elfein regard of their beautie, odour and {mell, have induced us to fearch far 
ther inte them,andto make triall of their manifold vertues and operations in Phyficke, But yet there 
remaine behind many more and thofe{o powerfull,that they prove evidently unto us how Nature hath 
produced nothing in vaine and without fome caufe: although the fame be occult and hidden oftentimes 
from usand referved onely in her clofet and fecret counfell. my 
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O& Of certaine nations which ufehearbes for procuring and preferving of beautie. 
== Ertes,I doe find and obferve, that there bee forraine nations, who time out of 
sa || mind,haveben ever accuftomed to annoint their bodies with the janice of cer- 
>” <y| tainehearbs, forto embellifh and beautifiethem, as theythought. And ve- 
e)|} rely in fome of thefe*barbarous countries, yee {hall have the women to paint 
2 aA @| their faces,fome with this hearbe,and others with that : yea,and among the 
neither within : : . : a 
Gteccencr ——— Dakes and Sarmatians,in Tranfylvania, Walachia, Tartaria,and thofe parts, 
Italie, the men alfo marke their bodies with certaine charaGers.But to goe no farther than into Gaule, x | 
there groweth an hearbe there like unto Plantaine, and they call ir Glaftum [7. VVoad] with the 
juice whereof the women of Brittaine,as well the maried wives, as young maidens their daugh- 
ters, annointand die their bodies all over: refembling by that tin@ure the colour of Moores 
® vand ZEthyopians ; in which manner they ufe at fome folemne feafts and facrifices, to goeall 
“naked. 
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2& That clothes bedied with certaine bearbs. 
' Ndnow of late daies we know there hath been taken up a ftraunge and wonderfull manner + 
of dying and colouring clothes.Forto fay nothing of the graine brought out of Galatia, 
A ffticke,and Portugall, whereof is made the royall Skarlet, referved for princes only and 
great captaines to weare in their rich mantles of eftate and coats of armes:) behold, the French 
inhabiting beyond the Alps, have invented the meanes to counterfeit the purple of Tyrus,the 
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