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 17, 2024.

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Of the Crane.

THe Crane by proper name should be cal∣led whisperer, or flackerer, as Lucane hath of hir thus.

Et turbata petit dispersis litora pennis. In raging waues of the Seas streame the Crane by flacking wings, Hath pleasure passing all delight in this than in all things.
Their flight is on highe, espying therby what land they were best to take: by his voyce they are all ruled which is their guide or leader,

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whose voyce waxing hoarse, another straight wayes taketh his rowme. In the night time they haue their watch, euerie one of thē night∣ly by course, and whosoeuer playeth the watch man least he should sleepe, hath a prouiso: he holdeth fast in his clawes little stones, which in their falling from him straight wayes awa∣keth him. The other by his paine taking, sléepe quietly and take their rest. Aristotle by obser∣uauncy had, much commendeth their flight be∣yond the Sea: It is done with such cunning and ease.

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