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.

The Conclusion.

OF Ydachides I néede not to write, for that I finde nothing of his prayse in other Au∣thors but this: that in manner Spherelike it hath one within an other. Neither néede I write of Zeblicū, which is found in Misaena, whereof I finde nothing else, but that it auai∣leth against venome. Neither néede I speake of Zinguites, the ashie coloured stone, which be∣ing worne about y^e neck, stencheth bloud: last∣ly of all, I haue not much to entreate of Zeni∣eth, which of some is called and reckned the stone Lazulus, whose onelye commendation is for that it purgeth Melancholy passions, and stoppeth them. But these which I haue before entreated of, I therefore entreated of, and so far forth I spake of them, as it mought somewhat moue men not to be dull or slack in the searching out of these: for that much pro∣fite cōmeth to man by them. If I should haue spoken of all kinde of stones, as well Gems as other: I suppose it would haue required large and infinite volumes. For the kinde of stones as Isidore sayth, are infinite. But these haue I gathered with good wil, and briefely. Wher∣fore gentle Reader fauour vs, and beare with vs now; as thou wilt haue vs hereafter perad∣uenture to enrich these.