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.

Of the Perwincle.

THe Perwincles in Gréeke are called Kokliai, wherof some be of the Sea: other of flouds, others of the yearth. They are alwaies clothed with one and the same shale. The Poets call this and the Snaile also, Domiporte, that is their house cariour. And this is the fable that they father vpon them. When Iupiter hadde bidden all creatures & thinges liuing to a feast or banquet: these kindes of all other made no apperaunce: Iupiter therfore demaundeth the cause or reason of their absence, who gaue him this aunswere. Quae domus cara, eadem do∣mus optima. Which is, that house or manti∣on place which is most estemed that we recken the best. At the which aunswere, Iupiter be∣ing stirred, he cōmaunded them to their owne house or lodge as to perpetuall prison, and that whither soeuer they went, they shoulde carye their House and Home with them vpon their backes.