To the Worthy Apothecary and Herbarift 
Matter Iohn Parkinson. 
M frI ^Ouhavc built us aBotanickeThea r er 5 with fuch excellent skill and advantage to the 
Spedator- that at one view he commands the profped of both Hemifphers; and ail 
their vegetables in the pride of beauty: ranged in their proper orders,decking the Hils, 
Plaines' Valleycs,Medowe$, Woods, and Bathes, with fuch a world of fhap.es and co¬ 
lours, fo delightfull to the eye,fo winning upon theration dl Soule which feeds on ra- 
ies! that we cannot hope for a more compleateParadile upon earth, till Nature have found out a 
wftocke for more variety; what can be added to this I fee nor; norisit (I beleeve) yet knowr.e 
tbebeft of Artifts that have made fearch. It* Cenfiit. 
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Elogium in Theatrum Botanicum 
Iohannis Parkinfoni 
E amplius nobis indet QateVam, Audi earn,Diojcoridem 
Gracia,fuajuofque tantummirarifolita ; 
Ecce,ex ultimo Occidents, 
Sf penitustoto divi/is orbe Bricannis, 
Exoritur nobis ja?n diuex optatns 
Solalter Botanicorum, 
Qui alios omnes luce fua prteflrinxit, 
Et,tanqum nanus humerisgiganteisJublatm, 
This aliis <vidit: 
Necid orbi literato inrvidet, 
Meliore omnia or dine, methodoque accuratiore digefsit, 
Qiueque alii Jlriclim,ft>arfimque, in unum conge/sit, 
“fibique, LeBor, mo intuitu 
SpcBanda propofuit, 
ltaque dijpofuit, 
Vt,quie mole ufiique maxima fint, 
Ordineisr methodoquafi modica allubefcant. 
Sileat <etas avorumjioftraqtie, 
Tragum^attkiolum^uchfiumfiejnerum^odon.eum, Epbdium. 
Alios item quotcumque, qualejcunque i 
Vnm jnftar omnium Parkinfonus, 
Columna Britannicus,CHt'Twe inferibas licet 
]S[il ultra. 
Jn quern felice isrperquam rara lun^xivu 
1 am Veterum,qttam recentium omnium Botanicorum animum in unum commigrajf - yires. 
Hocoperi laudis'veBigal, 
Non tarn amori,quam veritati obfequens 
Autori amicitU tejjeram, 
Et cultus tejlimonium, 
TerfolVtt. L.M. 
Iohannes Mauritiu 
