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NICHOLAS BACON, of GILLINGHAM, ESQUIRE.

I not observed that purblind men have discoursed well of sight, and some without issue, excellently of generation; I, that was never master of any considerable garden, had not attempted this subject. But the earth is the garden of nature, and each fruitful country a paradise. Dioscorides made most of his observations in his march about with Antonius; and Theophrastus raised his generalities chiefly from the field.

Besides, we write no herbal, nor can this volume deceive you, who have handled the massiest thereof: who know that