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 Berill.

BErill is a Stone rare, but not so precious, for it alone groweth in Indie: it is founde greene like to the Smaradge. It is first found also raw and rude without eyther good looke or pleasant shewe, but afterwards it is better po∣lished of them of Indie, and they vse to polish it in maner and forme of Angle or Corner, to the intent that through y^e dulnesse of his owne colour, this maner might shew some glittring the light hauing his stay in euerie eche corner: Some say, they fashion it a•• the first, seauen cornered: and otherwise they say it shimmereth not. There is also another kinde of Berill, which of the Gréeke worde is called Golden Be∣rill, as sayth Diascorides, whose interchaūged gréene colour resembleth almost the wan and yelow colour of Golde. They say that this being borne aboute a man, and being put now and than to his eies, kepeth a man out of perill of his enimies.