Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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- Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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- Person, David.
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- London :: Printed by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes], for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the green-Dragon,
- 1635.
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"Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09500.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2025.
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TO THE RIGHT Honourable, my noble good Lord, THOMAS Lord BINNING, &c.
My ever honoured good Lord,
NO so base attribute but might justly be vented against mee, had I so farre supprest Your Lo▪ most generous goodnes, and many singular favours con∣ferred on my demerits, as not in this dutifull dedication, sa∣crificed to the altar of your larger merits, present this small offering of my greater good will and affection: I will not implore your propitious acceptance, for your noted and courteous affability to all, and gracious accep∣tance of meanest gifts, animates me to this presumpti∣on. What your knowne vertues (my Lord) are, would
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require a more accurate and tighter Pen than mine to delineate; yet were not the world so given, that even truthes themselves are taken for palpable flatteries, I could tell with what universall applause and commen∣dation your younger vertues and generosities in your travels made even strangers to honour and admire you! I could tell what great hopes our Countrey hath already received, that you will not onely to the Lands and Possessions of your worthily noble Father, succeed as Heyre, but to his singular Knowledges and Vertues also; which have already so fairely budded and now ripen so hopefully, that none can doubt the successe; I could tell too of your Prudence, Courage, Charity, and your other ample endowments; but I am so full of ad∣miration of your every goodnesse, that what the Tra∣gedian said of Cares, I may of my affections, Leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent: Accept then (my deare Lord) for expression of all, this little Booke; which, how voluminous and accurate soever it could be, were due to your high deservings from me; That Your Lo: in it, is mixed with so noble Partners, I hope for par∣don not reproofe, which likewise intreate for all my o∣ther trespasses and boldnesse with your Honour, al∣wayes humbly desiring the continuance of your Noble Love and Favours to one, who would no longer wish to live, if it were not both to live and die
Your Lo: most faithfull and entirely-affectioned Servant▪ D. PIERSON.