The Preface to the Reader. 
forced ( vnlefle I will chufe rather to offend in rebus, than 
invocibus) by their leaue and thine (learned Reader) to 
ftrainetheordinarie fignification of the word and, in 
fuch places, to tranflateit^^w.fith the males heere beare 
no fway at all, this being an Amxzjonixnox feminine king- 
dome. *v. 
In diftinguifhingthe times of the yeere, I vfe the Aftro- 
nomicall months, asmoft naturall and fitting to my pur- 
pofe/y. Where note that by the name of each monctn, is 
commonly vndcrftood the firft day of the fame moneth, 
( namely, wherefoeuer this prepotirion At, is let before 
it) except onely where it followeth, /», or After, or other- 
wife the fenfe doth plainly fhew that it isfpokenof the 
whole Moneth. 
When you haue once, for your fatisfa&ion,perufed this 
Booke , you need not afterward feeke farre for any thing 
therein, whereof you doubt: the Index of the Chapters or 
Contents of the Booke ; and of the Marginal! notes, or 
Contents of the Chapters will readily direct you. For 
examp!e,if you would know theSpleeting of Hmes* or 
the manner of Hiuing Bees ; looking into the Index of the 
Chapters, you fhall psreeiuetheone to appertaine to the 
Third, and the other to the Fifth ; and running oner the 
Contents of either Chapter, youfliallfindethefitfttobe 
the Tenth note, and the other the 53. Then turning to 
thefe Marginal Notes in the faid Chaprers^*you haue 
in the Text ouer againft them your defire. 
Notealfo, that whereas you haue in the Margin, with 
thefe Marginall Notes, certaine References vnto other pla- 
ces ofthe Booke, for further explanation of thofe places 
againft which they ftand j V. fignifieth vide, or See, c. with 
his number the Chapter, and N. with his number the Mar- 
ginall Note. But if A 7 , follow r. without C 5 then doth it 
aote fome Note of the fame Chapter. 
