Musæum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities.: Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.

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Title: Musæum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities.: Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.
Author: Tradescant, John, 1608-1662.
Publication: London :: Printed by John Grismond, and are to be sold by Nathanael Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill,; M.DC.LVI. [1656]
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Subject terms: Museums -- Catalogs -- England; Ashmolean Museum -- Early works to 1800.
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On John Tradescante the elder, deceased.

Anagr: JOHN TRADESCANTE.

Had inocent Artes.
Can honest Art die?
Artes cannot die.

NOr court, nor shop-crafts were thine ARTES, but those Which Adam studied ere he did transgresse: The Wonders of the Creatures, and to dresse The worlds great Garden. Sure the Sun ne're rose Nor couch'd, but blush'd to see thy roofe enclose More dainties than his orb. CAN Death oppress Such HONEST ART as this, or make it less? No: Fame shall still record it, and expose Industrious care to all eternity. The body may, and must: ARTES CANNOT DIE