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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Title: 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.
Author: Maplet, John, d. 1592.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,; [1567 (3 June)]
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Subject terms: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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Cite this Item: "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 17, 2024.

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Of the Whale.

THe Whale with the Germanes is called the Wallfiche: many of the Latine wry∣ters are at strife to haue hir and Balena al one. Aristo. as likewise Plinie, will haue all those fishes called Caete which are of y^e greatest sort: and which bring forth yong, and that a perfect and liuing thing so soone as they are deliuered: To speake of the hugenesse or vastnesse of this I néede not: for that euerie traueiler knoweth it. Of hir loue towards hir yong I must som∣what speake. This is the report that goeth of hir: at one time she bringeth forth many: and ouer those many as though they were but one, she is all alike vigilant. The greatest perils that most endamage them are the Sea stormes or tempestes: at these therefore she vseth this knack. She is saide to encompasse them all round about with hir bending bodie, and so as in a Parlour house safely to defende them: of other she is saide to swallow them vp into hir entrayles or belly for a time: and there to kepe them safely: after the broyling of the Sea be∣ing once ended she poureth them out againe, and so by this meanes they are without their perill.