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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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 1, 2024.

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Of the Serpent Cerastes.

CErastes the Serpent hath on both sides of his heade, as it were the hornes of a Ram, bending vpward and wreathen all about. He lurketh sayth Isidore in the high grasse, wher∣in nothing can be espied of him sauing onelye his hornes, which thing the small Birdes of y^e field espying, wéening to find (as in all other dead bodies their hornes, wormes meate alone for their appetite and desire) they being busie and pickling on them not knowing this Ser∣pent his deceipt hid, are caught of him with a sodaine twining of himselfe about them, and are so sodainely snared. The like wiles he v∣seth with horse and man, to lie as though he were deade, or secretlye as though there were none such, yet whilest they vnawares tread vpon him, he twineth about either them, and so stingeth them.