To the Reader. 
obfer'ved their Changes ; fo he committed little 
or nothing to Writing or T)eGgne^ but what fuc- 
ceeded with him , and ( as he underftood it J 
had its right Change : Which is more^ than any 
man ever did before him ; So that we need not 
admire j that jo long^ and pertinatious an Indujlry 
produced fo few Hiftorys ; For he Defigned not 
ail^ that came to hand^ hut ftich only^ as it was his- 
good fortune to Feed^ and bring up to Change. 
And yet in thefe few Hfftorys, you will have 
fomething of aU the fever all Genus's of'la(e3:s y 
that, are in Nature. . 
He left his Papers in Dutch, which were at 
feveralltimeSy and that by divers handsy put forth 
in Latin ; Hw Latin Interpreters have added 
Comment Sy indeed ”, but were Men wholy ignorant 
in Naturall H\F.osy^andtheir Comments are meere 
JiitfibdjLeSy.and altogether impertinent to the £v- 
plicatio n of any one Hiftory of Godartius .• As he, 
who jh alt attentively con fider themy will plainly 
find : wherefore in this our Fi nnUztionyl have Or 
mitted themyand have P rinted the Authors words 
onlyy and have here and there ufed the freedom of 
animadvertingy upon what is not agreeable to my 
owne experience in thefe matters ; befidsJ have 
Methodifed the Hiftorys^ according to the Se-- 
veraUnatures of the they treat about ^ andf 
where: 
