o the Right honorable and my 
very good Loude, Sir lohn Pavvlet Knight, 
Lorde S. lohn : Leonarde Mafcall widieth 
profpcrous hcakh,yvith continuall en- 
creafc of honour. 
)l GHT honorable, among all Sciences th-^ 
he lightly obtayned, and among manye 
[lij'goodly exercifes and exlmiences fir men, 
there is none (^among the reast ) .more mectt 
and requifite, or that onore doth refrefie ths 
‘Vital! jf mtes of- men, nor more engender (ul- 
miration injhe effecles of nature, or that is 
caufe of greater recreation to the teearie and 
tra-ueyled Ifirit of man, or more projit able to mans lyj'e, than is the 
skill of planting and grajfng, the Vehich not onely We may fee with . 
vur eyes, but aljofiele with our handes in the fecrete Workgs of na. 
tnre :yea, nothing more difcouereth vnto Vs the gre^at incompre-^ 
henfble Worke of God, that, of one-little Tepynfeede, Kut or final! 
plant, may come the felfifame Herbe or tree, and to bring firth in^ 
finite ofthefamefruit,which afodoth fhine andfhewforth itfelfi 
Vnto V.f, ejpecially in the Spring tyme) by their diuerfitis if fimtes, 
hlojfoms, and buds, in diuers kjndes cf nature, by thegoodnejfe and 
mi^htie power of the great Lorde- and Creator toWardes his people, 
infuch thinges as commeth firth of the naturall earthyto nourijhe, 
tpfiibfiayne an lmaintayne-our lyues. W'hat greater pleafure-can.. 
there he, than tofimel! the fieeete odour of Herbes, trees,and fruits, 
and to heholde thegoodlye- c.olour of the fame , .which in certayne. 
tymes ofthe.yeare commeth forth of the IT omhe of their mother, 
and nourfe, and fo to Vnderfi.mde the fecrete operation in the fame. , 
^nd to he fhort, of this Ubonr ( in ourlyues ) Wee doe >tal{e part 
therofwithgreat gdynes and reuenues that come thereby, where aS' 
through ydlenejfe there commeth hone : therefore to augment the 
fame, it pyallbegoodto-appeafe and mitigaU all finde dehghtes and. 
Vtpyne pleafures, With fuch lyke V-anitics, an.i chape put out and a-m 
hlijh the delightes ofaHvices. therefore thelPoet fayth ijetvs 
prayfe the true labouring hours of the true labourer T hereVpo many . 
W JL<ird(f and noble pcrfonagesjme hft their theam,phafant 
■' JH^t. 
