The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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- The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic].
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- [Antwerp :: Emprented by me Ioh[a]n of Doesborowe],
- [1527?]
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- Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works.
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"The noble lyfe a[nd] natures of man of bestes, serpentys, fowles a[nd] fisshes [that] be moste knoweu [sic]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.
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¶Prologus.
IN the name of ower sauiour criste Ie¦su ma∣ker & re¦demour of al mā¦kynd / I Laurēs ādrewe of ye tow¦ne of Ca¦lis haue transla¦ted for Iohn̄es does bo / rowe booke prenter in the cite of And warpe this p̄sent volume deuyded in thre partes whiche was neuer before in no maternall langage prentyd tyl now / The naturall maister Aristotell saith that euery body be the course of nature is enclyned to here & se all that refressheth & quickeneth the spretys of man / wherfor I haue thus in this bo∣ke folowīge written the nature of ma¦ny bestys on erthe / fowles in the ayre & fysshes in the water / whiche be won¦derfull and maruelous to be herde of / and how these forsaid be natured and fourmed whiche be figured at euery chapter. ¶And first of all I wyll speke of man because he is moste worthyest to be spoken of / for he is created & ma∣de like vnto the similitude of almighty god / and than of all thinges that is cre¦ated of almighty god to the behoue of mankynde wherby he shold be sustay¦ned & preserued / of the whiche he shall answere for at the dredfull daye of iu¦gemēt before our redemour the right wis Iuge of all such thīges as he hath mysused that god of his infenyte gra¦ce hathe made hym lorde of. &c̄.