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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01622	The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London	Gerard, John, 1545-1612.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.; Payne, John, d. 1647?, engraver.; Dodoens, Rembert, 1517-1585. Cruydenboeck.	1633 (1633)	STC 11751; ESTC S122165	1,574,129	1,585

יהוה Ecce dedi vobis omnes herbas smentantes semen qiue sunt Gen 1. 29. Excideret ne tibi diuini muneris Author Praesentem monstrat quaelibet herba Deum Ceres Pomona THE HERBALL OR GENERALL Historie of Plantes Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master in CHIRVRGERIE Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of LONDON THEOPHRASTUS DIOSCORIDES London Printed by Adam Islip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers Anno 1633. Io Payne sculp VIRIS PRVDENTIA VIRTVTE ARTE RERVMQVE VSV SPECTATISSIMIS DIGNISSIMIS RICHARDO EDWARDS RECTORI SIVE MAGISTRO EDWARDO COOKE LEONARDO STONE GVARDIANIS CAETERISQVE CLARISS SOCIET PHARMACEVT LOND SOCIIS HOS SVOS IN EMACVLANDO AVGENDOQVE HANC PLANTARVM HISTORIAM LABORES STVDIORVM BOTANICORVM SPECIMEN AMORIS SYMBOLVM EX ANIMO D. D. VESTRAE PVBLICAEQVE VTILITATIS STVDIOSISSIMVS THOM. IOHNSON TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HIS SINGVLAR GOOD LORD AND MASTER SIR WILLIAM CECIL KNIGHT BARON OF Burghley Master of the Court of Wards and Liueries Chancellor of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter one of the Lords of her Maiesties most honorable Priuy Councell and Lord high Treasurer of England AMong the manifold creatures of God right Honorable and my singular good Lord that haue all in all ages diuersly entertained manv excellent wits and drawne them to the contemplation of the diuine wisdome none haue prouoked mens studies more or satisfied their desires so much as Plants haue done and that vpon iust and worthy causes For if delight may prouoke mens labor what greater delight is there than to behold the earth apparelled with plants as with a robe of embroidered worke set with Orient pearles and garnished with great 〈◊〉 of rare and costly iewels If this varietie and perfection of colours may affect the eye it is such in herbs and floures that no Apelles no Zeuxis euer could by any art expresse the like if odours or if taste may worke satisfaction they are both so 〈◊〉 in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the Apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue But these delights are in the outward sences the principall delight is in the minde siugularly enriched with the knowledge of these visible things setting forth to vs the inuisible wisedome and admirable workmanship of almighty God The delight is great but the vse greater and ioyned often with necessity In the first ages of the world they were the ordinarie meate of men and haue continued euer since of necessaire vse both for meates to maintaine life and for medicine to recouer health The hidden vertue of them is such that as Pliny noteth the very bruite beasts haue found it out and which is another vse that he obserues from thence the Dyars tooke the beginning of their Art Furthermore the necessary vse of these fruits of the earth doth plainly appeare by the great charge and care of almost all men in planting and maintaining of gardens not as ornaments onely but as a necessarie prouision also to their houses And here beside the 〈◊〉 to speake againe in a word of delight gardens especially such as your Honor hath furnished with many rare Simples do singularly delight when in them a man doth behold a flourishing shew of Sommer beauties in the midst of Winters force and a goodly spring of floures when abroad a leafe is not to be seene Besides these and other causes there are many examples of those that haue honored this science for to passe by a multitude of the Philosophers it may please your Honor to call to remembrance that which you know of some noble Princes that haue ioyned this study with their most important matters of state Mithridates the great was famous for his knowledge herein as 〈◊〉 noteth Euax also King of Arabia the happy garden of the world for principall Simples wrot of this argument as Pliny sheweth Diocletian likewise might haue had his praise had he not drowned all his honour in the bloud of his persecution To conclude this point the example of Solomon is before the rest and greater whose wisedome and knowledge was such that hee was able to set out the nature of all plants from the highest Cedar to the lowest Mosse But my very good 〈◊〉 that which sometime was the study of great Philosophers and mightie Princes is now neglected except it be of some few whose spirit and wisdome hath carried them among other parts of wisedome and counsell to a care and studie of speciall herbes both for the furnishing of their gardens and furtherance of their knowledge among whom I may iustly affirme and publish your Honor to be one being my selfe one of your seruants and a long time witnesse thereof for vnder your Lordship I haue serued and that way employed my principall study and almost all my time now by the space of twenty yeares To the large and singular furniture of this noble Island I haue added from 〈◊〉 places all the varietie of herbes and floures that I might any 〈◊〉 obtaine I haue laboured with the soile to make it fit for plants and with the plants that they might delight in the soile that so they might liue and prosper vnder our clymat as in their natiue and proper countrey what my successe hath beene and what my furniture is I leaue to the report of them that haue 〈◊〉 your Lordships gardens and the little plot of myne owne especiall care and husbandry But because gardens are priuat and many times finding an ignorant or a negligent successor come soone to ruine there be that haue sollicited me first by my pen and after by the Presse to make my Labors common and to free them from the danger whereunto a garden is subiect wherein when I was ouercome and had brought this History or report of the nature of Plants to a iust volume and had made it as the Reader may by comparison see richer than former Herbals I found it no question vnto whom I might 〈◊〉 my 〈◊〉 for considering your good Lordship I found none of whose fauor and 〈◊〉 I might sooner presume seeing I haue found you euer my very good Lord and Master Again considering my duty and your Honors merits to whom may I better recommend my Labors than to him vnto whom I owe my selfe and all that I am able in any seruice or 〈◊〉 to performe Therefore vnder hope of your Honorable and accustomed fauor I present this Herball to your Lordships protection and not as an exquisite Worke for I know my meannesse but as the greatest gift and chiefest argument of duty that my labour and seruice can affoord where of if there be no other fruit yet this is of some vse that I haue ministred Matter for Men of riper wits and deeper iudgements to polish and to adde to my large additions where any thing is defectiue that in time the Worke may be perfect Thus I humbly take my leaue beseeching God to grant