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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE... HIS: SINGVLAR’ GOOD LORD: AND @% MA STER, SIR ,WILLIAM CECILL: KNIGHT, BARON | * of Burghley, Matter of the Court of wardesand Lineries,Chan- -cellor of the Uniuerfitie of Cambridge, Knight of the most noble ~ order of the Garter, one of the Lords of bir AZ. aiesties most honorable priuie Counfell,and —

pie : Eigh Treafurer of eae a oe caters oe - ore ‘A Ma <4 t © CRT eA pies " : a : my fi ie sete good Lord y that haute alli in, all a si SV |} entertained many excellent Wits y and, drawent them sag EX ee aoe, ee

meee may: ed mens ace what oreate “e there thantobehold the earth pa

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ee colours may a the cie, itis sis cies and flowers, that no ee no Ze = ever er could ce any = the like : 2if eons orif tafte may pworke fatist

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Th ioy : ie. a thet igre Peano ae cise 0 = haue continued euer finceof nc vie both for meat intaine. ‘medicine health, ; ue: £ chemis

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ns the very brute beafts haue foundit out: and (whichis another vie thathe obferueth ) Thaib Cc 1 om, ae eee Co a ES

Sa Furthermore, the neceffarie vie of thee fruits of the earth doth plainly appeere

by the great charge and care of alinoft all men in planting and maintaining of gar, dens, not as ornaments onely,

f g dot d eli ght; gardens, efpecially ic as LI ; Sen | oe 2G Ege ae | G J

i @ man doth behold 4 flourifhing fhew of fommer beauties inthe middeft of winters i force {pring of flowers, when abroad a leafe isnotto be feenc. Befide oa ‘and other caules, there aremany examples of thofe that peat ee this {ci- — nce eafe your Honor to ¢all to roremembrance that which you knoweof Lome noble Princes i haucioyned this : Mithridates the great was famous Sie for his knowledge herein, as Plutarch south tax alfo king of Arabia, the happie Pintsy garden of the world for principall fimples, wrote of this argument, as Plinie fheweth : Diocletian might he haue his praife, hadhe not drowsed ; all his honorin the blood Ee of hisperfecution. Toconclude this point, the example of Salomonis before the reft i: and greater, whofe wifedome and knowledge was fuch, thathe was able to fet out the oe of all plantes, from the higheft Cedar to theloweft Mofle. Butmy very goo Lo g at Philofophers and | mightie| Princes,

Lite 4 ASG | CL among ¢ other partes of wifedome and countell, toacare and ftudie of {pcciall herbes, both for the furnifhing of their gardens, an sd the furtherance of their knowledge : a whome I may iuftly affirme and d publith your Honor to be one, being my felfe for V nder y our Lordihip I haue

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eure is, Tleaue to the: report of t them i haue ceeyou bere oa icaufe gardens are ° priuate,

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toa iuttvol thad it, asthe Reader Spice comparifon fee, richer than former Het I found i it La tn to whome I might dedicate my’! eae for -

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