A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.
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- Maplet, John, d. 1592.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,
- [1567 (3 June)]
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- Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06860.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2024.
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THe Bull is the hée Bullock, not gelt or ha∣uing lost his parts to generation. Plinie sayth in his .viij. booke, that his noble courage is in his looke, & in his frowning countnance or forehead. Aristo. sayth, yt he hath his Liuer round, in a maner like to a man his liuer. And is fed alone before such time as the Male & Fe∣male doe conioyne: but afterward at that time he féedeth and associateth in selfe him pasture with the Bullock. They are said to striue one with another for the Female which they best like: and after much strife and warring had, who so first tireth and is wearie, is counted vanquished, & the other the vanquisher forth∣with runneth to the Female, and leapeth vp vpon hir back, and so satisfieth his desired lust.