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flhame. This Ingenious and Learned Kings nioft obliging and 
admirable Letter to all the Lords and Deputies Lieutenants , 
and to all the Gentry and Ingenious, may yet be feen in Uart'^ 
libs Ltgacy^ i /^th^ Defic, edit, 4*. 
Of this I am fure (for I had a hand in promoting it with Mr. 
HartJiby Jn. 16$ r, 52, 53.) that Silkworms will profper and 
work very kindly in Mf^ghnd^ as far as they were tried. In the 
North of Cheshire and in Huntingtonfiire^ and in Ireland in the 
County of Cavo» in U/fi^r , a mpifter place than moft parts of 
Ef^gU»dy fomc of my acquaintance gathered from their own 
Silkworms, filk enough to knit for themfelves gloves, ftoekins, 
and waftcoatsof filk. Thewant of Mulberies was only then 
their difcouragement 5 which did put them to make unprof- 
perous trials upon other leaves : I chink , the Rafpy-leaf and 
Strawbery "leaf was leaft hurtful to the worms^but none befides 
Mulbery- leaves fufficienc for their work. 
And thefaireft Mrfbery, both for the fruit and for the li- 
quor, and the Marmalade they made of if, were in higheft e* 
fteemin//4^ when R^?»»^ was in her height for luxury; gene» 
rally prefer d before any fruit they held entertained from Jfrica 
or A^a^or other parts of their wide Dominions, fome hundreds 
of years before they had any thought of Aurelim filk in Italy 
or Naples. I will prove it : 
Cumcanis Eifigones flAgrans Hjperionis ajlu 
jtrboreos aperit foetus, cumuUtaque mom 
Candid A f anguine 0 mantit fifiella crmre^ 
Imc precox bifera defcendit ab arboreficm^ 
jirmeniifque^ & c^rtolis^ prtmfque Damafii 
StipantHT calathi^ fomis qm barbara Perfis 
tJ^iferat 
Here the Mulbery hath the precedence before the fairefl; Fig, 
the Abricot, Prunes of the beft forts, and the Peach which (he 
faith) had forfaken the noxioufnefs which it had in JPerJia^ by 
the change of foyl in Italy, 
Ambrofios prabent fuccos oblita nocendi* 
He goes on with other Paviesor Peaches from Perfia , and other 
fruits in higheft efteem. 
And Palladium (d.t leaft 200 years after Cohmella) teaeheth 
to make the Quidenie of Mulberies, called Diamor®n, of the 
Juice of Mulberies^ without any other mixture, only boy led 
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