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Show The Epistle Dedicatorie. 1 koeek The Epistle Dedicatorie. {eruice or deuotion to performe2 Therefore vnder hopeof your Honorable andaccu ftomed fauour,| prefent this Herball to your Lordthips protection ; not as an exquifite worke(for] know my meannefle)butasthe greatett gift andchiefeft argumentof dutie thatmylabourand feruice can affoord: whereofifthere be no further fruit, yet this is offome vfe,that I haue miniftred matterforriper wits,and menofdeeperiudgementto polifh; and toadde tomylarge additions where anythingis defedtiue, that in time the worke maybe perfect. Thus I humbly takemy leaue,befeeching Godto grant : SATS Sere hervfethath vie that] another (whichis the very brute beafts haute founditout: and vmsos. cap.2 oe oftheirart. = fromthencethe Diars tooke the beginning fruits of the earth doth plai le ofthe vie farie necef the Furthermore, Seo n planting and maint by the great charge and care of almoft all meni alfo to the dens, notas ornaments onely, but asaneceflarie prouifion gardens ht; delig f a wordo here befidethe fruit, to fpeake againein dar! i es,do fimpl are manyr your Honorhath,furnifhed w ith inthe 1 ties erbeau fomm of g fhew ifhin man doth behold a flour ttob isno ada leafe abro when rs, flowe of ng ly{pri force,and a good at hau feth les oftho examp any arem s, there caufe other and thefe you yet many daiesto liuetohis glorie, tothe fupport ofthis {tate vnderhir Maieftic our dread Soueraigne,andthat with gteatincreafe of honorin this world, and all fulneffe of glorie inthe world tocome, ence: fortopafle by amultitude ofthe Philofophers, itmay pleafe toremembrance that which you knowe offome nobleP: ftudie with their moft important matters of ftate : Mithridate i forhis knowledgeherein, as Plutarch noteth: Euax alfo kit ples, wrote of thisa gardenof the world for principa his praife, hadhe not drowne Diocletian might he haue point, the exampleofSal of hisperfecution. Toconc and greater, whofe wifedome and knowledge was fuch, thathe w nature of all plantes, fromthe highett Cedartothe loweft Mofle. Lofd, that which fometimewas the ftudie of great Philofophers andi isnowneglected,except it be of fome few,whofe fpirit and. wifedome| amongother ps umiciy toacare and{ partes of: wifedome andcounfell, Your Lordfbips most humble and obedient feruant, both forthe furnifhing of their gardens, andthe furtheratnce among whome I may iuftly affirme and publith your Honortobe one eaten Sean yan en aeroeSboe onc of yourferu ants,and alo: ‘ 7 time witnefle thereof: ¢ t vndet for IOHN ferued, and that wayimploy< imyprincipal ftudie, andalm {pace of twentyyeeres. Te large and fingular furniture addedfromforren places all the varietic of herbesar Ne ant | A co obtaine, [hauesalaared laboured with the foile tomakeit$ fit fo to make themto delightin the foile, that fo they might ] climate, asin their natiue and proper countrie: what my { eek ‘eis, Ileaueto thereport of themthathaue feene} ts lictle plotofi y {peciall careand husbandrie, But bica and many cn times finding Se anigno ling ee anigt sd oranegligent or negligent fuccefl fucceflor g gentiuccelio r,¢ ye tha haue follicited mefirft byn y pen, and afterbythe Pre common, free themfrom the danger aa ad toea whereuntooa ger wl a garden oarden is; when was ouercome, andhadbroughtt uishiftorie, orreportof th the na it ate 2 be nN og Se te { E a iuftvolume, andhad madeit, asthe Reader mayby comparifon fec er Herbals, he ee ar re towhome I might ormer H 8, I found found iti no queftion d emy | confidering iintkGione fauour fo 1 none of fof whofe up, I found Lc Good Lordthip, vanes of your good : ‘whofe sidfauour en and clume, feeing I haue found youcuer my very good Lord and Maftet. Againe, confi . iering my dutie and yourE Tamaremantine:. ee 10NOrs Merits, to whom may I better recommend mylak 2ours than tohim, to whon 1c lowe myfelfe, andall thatI amablein any {eruice GERARD. |