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With the same leave the ancients called that kind of body Sylva, or, in which there were works of divers nature and matter congested; as the multitude call timber-trees promiscuously growing, a Wood or Forest; so I am bold to entitule these lesser poems of later growth, by this of , out of the analogy they hold to the Forest in my former book, and no otherwise.

BEN JONSON.