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 Oliue tree.

THe Oliue is a kinde of tree had in muche price amongest the Auncients for his pea∣sible and concordant nature. Insomuch that the olde Romaines (as in their Histories and Chronicles doth appeare) were neuer woont to send their Legates or Embassadours eyther to aske and require peace: or else to offer and pro∣claime peace with their outward enimies, w^t∣out smal braūches hereof borne in their hands. Remigius saith, it is for a token of signe or at∣tonement and couenant made betweene God

and man. As then especially when as y^e Doue fléeing forth of Noe his Arke, fetched first and formost to him a small twig hereof. Plinie sayth, in his .xv. booke, that the valiant and no∣blest vanquishers in the Citie of Athens in olde time were honoured and crowned with the Oliue. The same Authour also recordeth, that there be diuers kindes hereof. There is al∣so a certaine iuice of this Oliue, as Isidore saith, which the more new and fresh that it is, the better it is. There is also the wilde Oliue like to the other, but that it hath a more broade Leafe.