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 16, 2024.

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Of the Dromedarie.

THe Dromedarie or that other kind of Cā∣mell, that hath two Kybes or Bunches on his back, is of lesse stature then the other Cam∣mell is: but more swift in passage, of ye which propertie he borowed his name. Dromos in Gréeke is swift in course or running. He will go 100. Myles and mo in one day. They are gelt sayth Auicen, in their youth, least they

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should be therby more slow or hindered in their iourneying: and also least they should (being at ripe age, prouoked to Uenerie as they iour∣ney) slack it oftentimes & draw backwarde, till that they haue had their lust. It is such a kinde saith Plinie, as is not couetouse of varietie or dainties. For after that it hath had neuer so long a iourney, it is well content with grasse and the Herbe Dactylus, or the Pionie.

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