



To the Reader. 



m^G^^CfAvmg had the Honour to be continually with 

 SllSM pi m ) ; Lord * in compiling of this VVqxU^ And 

 BlSi |P to be employed therein . I have thought it 

 7^' Pffij X not ( with His Lordfhips good leave 

 & : and liking,) for the better fatisfawtion of 

 4fcf~4it3 thofe ghat mail read it, to make known 

 fomewbat of his Loidlh ps Intentions, touching the Ordering, 

 and Publifbing of thefaaic* I have heard rm Lordlhip often 

 fay thas if he thouldhave ferved the glory of his own Name,he 

 bad been better not to have publifhed this NawtU tfiftory ; For 

 it may feem an ndigefted Heap of Particulars. And cannot 

 have that LuOre, which Books caff, into Methods have,- But 

 that herefolved to preferre thegoodof Men, and that which 

 might beft fecure it, before any thirg that might have Relation 

 to Himfelf, And he knew well, that there was nootherway 

 open to unloofe Me^smin Jes, being bound, and (as it were) 

 Malefjciare 5 by the Charmes of deceiving Notions, and 

 Theories; and thereby made Impotent for Generation of 

 Work^ But onely no where to depart from the Senfe, and 

 clear Experience - 7 But to keep cloie to if, efp.cially in the 

 beginning.- B t fides , this Natural) History wasa Debt of his, 

 being defignedand fet down forathirdparc of the Inflauration* 

 I have, alfo heard his I ordihip difcourfe, that Men (no doubt ) 

 willthink many of the Experiments contained in this Collecti- 

 on, to be Vulgar and Trivial! ■ Mean and Sordid Curiousand 

 Fruitlefs • And therefore he wifheth, and they would have 

 perpetually before their Eyes, what is now in doing - And ihe 

 difference between this Natural! H/flory y and others* For 1 hofe 

 Natural! Hijiories , which are Extant, being gathered for De- 

 light 





