fay rntoyou that by the alteration you enjoy a double benefit, fir ft in the bulke of the.Hooke Which 
if that courfe had beene follo'iVed,Would have enlarged it well ncere half as much more■ and 
made it the more unweldy , and likewife the dearer and never a whit the letter : Secondly, in re- 
compenfe ofthe time [pent in looking for what you fcekyoti may read that 'Which may be more helpe > 
full and beneficial! toyou : let Mom us chaps therefore befiowed up to barkeno more. Among other 
the good ufes this Ttorke affor deth flois may be one,that it will helpe to correfl the Englifh names 
in all the Dictionaries to bee hereafter fetforth ^ tohich have them in many ignorantly , in fmie 
contrary,in mofl devious , in 'very few true, whereby many hoping foi helpe in their Dictionaries 
when an Her ball 'teas not at hand ba<ve beene frustrated, the blind It ading the blind, which how 
profitable, 1 league to every intelligent to conjider. And laftly, although Igoenot about to teach 
DoFlors (%>ho but little intended this prachfe , baiting enough to doe otherwayes, andyet it is 
as J may fofay,tbefundamcntall part thereof, and approved by Galen in his cen/ure of Simples, 
and Diolcorides Text ) but to helpe their memories , and Tvithall tofhew them my judgement f 
that they mifiakc not one thing for another, or one mans plant for another, Tehicb'J hope will well 
deferve their good liking: for the various concedes ofmen about Plants fts for the mofl part accor - 
ding to their knowledge in than , and hath caufed fuch miflakings and controverfle, as are to be 
feerie in their writings Goeforth now therefore thou iffte artificiall of mine,and fupply the de- 
febl of a Natural!, to heare up thy Fathers name and memo y tofucceeding ages y and tvhat in 
thee lyeth cffeEl more good to thy ‘Prince and Qountry then numerous of others, Tvhich often prove 
rather plagues thenprifts thereto, andfeare not theface of thy fierceftfoe: but fay that while 
we live ( although the courfe of the World is Orientem Temper adorare Solem non occh 
dentem) Wpermultadiferimina rerumrendimus in Patriam fupercceleftem, if 
any oppofe thee, or profiff'e himfetfe a ProElorfor Bauhinus or any others flips, the liftsJhallbe 
ready, and the controVtrfie ex ore decided: ifextinEl let the judicious determine the matter. 
Andbecaufe fomemay ohjeEl Jamfomewhat too tart and quicke, my Apology to dlls Amicus 
nnhi Plato, Amicus Seneca fed magis Arnica mihi veritas: Accept therefore in courte- 
fie of his paines that hath onely intended it for your good, and if J have eyther flipped or over flip¬ 
ped,With a gentle hand amend it-, fo fhallheflill be ' 
Thine in what he may, 
Iohn Parkinson, 
hBotanicm Tfigius . 
