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A06860	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.	Maplet, John, d. 1592.	1567 (1567)	STC 17296; ESTC S109788	96,800	244

done so well they would neuer chaunge the name hereof but after their proper and peculiar speach called it a Topaze For Topazein in Greeke is as much as to finde by seeking Plinie sayth that it hath bene found of that bignesse and quantitie that Philadelphus is saide to haue framed and made thereof a statue or Image in length of foure Cubits Of the Turches THe Turches or Turcois is of the common sort called Eranus It is in colour airelike or like to the Heauens and looketh cleare also as sayth Cardane It is called a Turches for that it is onely found in Turkland or amongst the Turkes This hath such vertue and hid maner in working that it supporteth and sustaineth being worne in a ring a mā from falling of his horse and is saide of the aboue saide Author to receyue the daunger of the fal it self and to breake and burst in sunder rather than the man should fall and miscarie The Conclusion OF Ydachides I néede not to write for that I finde nothing of his prayse in other Authors 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 auaileth against venome Neither néede I speake of Zinguites the ashie coloured stone which being worne about the neck stencheth bloud lastly of all I haue not much to entreate of Zenieth 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 profite 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 Wherfore gentle Reader fauour vs and beare with vs now as thou wilt haue vs hereafter peraduenture to enrich these FINIS The second Booke of the Aegemonie or chiefest vertues in all the whole kinde of Plants and of his parts as of Herbs Trees Shrubs after the order of the Alphabet Psal. 135. Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased that did he in Heauen and in Earth ▪ c. The Preface to the seconde Booke IN value more and in degrée of Nature higher In Nobilitie aboue Stones and Mettals are Plants if thei had their iust reputatiō were valued as they should be But herein is corrupt and depraued iudgement I might call it abuse but that this worde is not so fit and agreable in all poynts as that other and therfore it is true that the Poet Gualter saith Whilest that we being fastned and set vpon pleasures do stray from the right rule of Reason to satisfie oure mindes to nourish corrupt iudgement we set most by that that is lesse worth we most esteeme where lesse estimation should be and haue a preposterous maner in iudging and an awke wit in many things their preferment But this he spake as it semeth most of all moued with the Uulgar and cōmon sort For the other kinde of men whome Tullie calleth polished and wel addighted in all things which gouerne and stay themselues by wise prudent meanes he sawe vnlesse they were I can not tell howe by some euill meanes bewitched to reckon and esteeme of all things as they were And therefore he may seeme with al intent of mind fully bent to check and vpbraide the Multitude and their basenesse in iudgement whome the aforesaide Tullie trippeth eftsones but especially in his Oratiō had for Cneius Plancie wheras he reckneth vp a heape of imbecilities and wayes of halting in all office and duties and first after this sort In the cōmon sort saith he is no perfect knowledge or skill to select or choose forth amongst many things what is heade and principall there is no sound reason there is no desart of hauing well there is no industrie or diligence And in his Oratiō for Quintus Roscius after this sort Thus standeth it with the Cōmons They esteeme many things by figure fantacie but few veritably and vprightly Further the selfe same Author in his Offices holdeth him not Heroicall or Prince-like which leaneth or hangeth vpon them Wherfore let vs go on and giue them their naturall pristmate and iust place and order in degree forasmuch as in the other abouesaide in Mettals Stones all is in their hid secret vertue there making abode stay hereat vnlesse peraduenture thou be moued wyth the goodly shew Which with the Sunnes reflexions and light moreouer the shimmering aire the Mettall his purifying more or lesse meeting all togither one helpeth coloureth setteth out another thou being in loue with so goodly a shew and brought to it by euill accustoming giuest consent and so wonne dost becken at it and wilt say that it is onely proper to the Mettall it selfe but from that haue I brought thee set thee in another beliefe whereas I spake particularly of Golde Siluer and such like if thou wilt but onely waye of what stock or houshold they be of But to returne to our purpose In Plantes there is not onelye occult and hid vertue furthermore fresh flourishing colours wherewith I perceiue thou wouldst be delighted but there is in them that nature that cōmeth somwhat more neare than those other doe to the principall Creature man For in them is the life vegetatiue or that life which nourisheth augmenteth bringeth forth his like more apparant also and in sight more than those other be which lie shut vp in the earth as dead bodies without life and haue their maner of encrease or decrease therein as all other things incensible haue and are said to quicken or die but vnproperly In the Plant it is spoken on that wise properly after such sort as mankind first next after his conception is saide to quicken and continue withall in reaching by meane of naturall order to his last kinde vnperfect at the first by this meane of vnperfection in the which he lyeth and stayeth in after his conception 70. dayes and so long is he plantlike then the rest of time hath he in part and parcell like so disposed and ordred of Nature to lay holde on and to apprehende the other life aboue this called sensitiue in the which time so bespent ▪ he seemeth of no greater accoumpt or force than other bruite beastes be whose propertie is as brute beastes is also the like to feele griefe and pleasure to moue to haue sense and that newly then begunne by Orgaine or Instrument diuersly framed And then euen then it becommeth to haue an appitite to that which it holdeth good and pleasant and a recesse or lothsomnesse to

done she vomiteth it forth againe and falleth to fresh bloud anew Of the fish Lucius LVcius of many men is called the Macrell The Germaines call it Ein Macrell The Latins Luciꝰ by the figure Antiphrasis which is when a word hath a contrarie signification They say that this fish kéepeth alwaies at the verie bottome of the waters so auoyding as it were all cleare light whither when as the fishermen by night saile with firebrand torch so that they espie it they amazed there at and astonyed in their flight are so caught Of the Lamprey THe Lamprey in Gréeke is called Muraina with the Germanes Ein Bricken there is of this kinde two sorts both differing in colour For the one is blacke in colour died among with ashie spots the other is white hauing black spots She swimmeth all whole in flexible sort and all alike bending hir bodie aboue the land she creepeth no other wise then our serpents doe The best of this stock or kind are those that be called Flutae in Greke Plootai good saylers or fluites for that they kéeping alwayes at the waters highest can not be drowned Antonia Drusus wife had such delight in a Lamprey that she dressed and arayed hir all ouer with golde Ringes and the same beset aboute with precious Stones Likewise Crassus by surname the rich so loued a Lamprey of his owne bringing vp that when she dyed he lamented sore and bestowed also great cost of hir burying And whē as he was laughed to scorne of Lucius Domitius for so doing he gaue him this aunswere Thou marueylest sayth he why I so bewaile this Fishes death But I marueile more at him that hauing had the losse of thrée Wyues neuer yet for ought that I could sée bewayled it This Domitius is reported to haue poysoned thrée Wiues for hope that he had of rewarde or greater riches thereby Of the Leoparde THe Leoparde is a very tiraunte aduouterous also in his kinde as saith Plinie The Lionnesse and Leoparde hauing coniunction togither or the Lion and Libardesse bring forth a third kinde euen as the Horse and Asse or hée Horse and Mare doe The Female saith Aristotle is more cruell than the Male his colour is bespotted about his vpper parte of bodie and his féete also and taile are all alike to the Lion in outwarde shew But in the head they haue their difference In bodye he is lesse than the Lion And by that meanes he is euen with the Lion and not behinde him in reuenging as Homer witnesseth He hath his cabbage in the yearth with two contrary wayes vndermined to enter into it or to run out of it at his pleasure verie wide at the comming in but as narrow and straight about the mid cabbage whether his enimie the Lion running sometimes after him and a pace at the first cōming in thither is narrowly pent Insomuch that he cannot neyther get forward nor backwarde That seing the Leoparde he running a pace out at the furder hole and commeth to that wheras the Lion first ran in and hauing him hard pent his back towardes him bighteth scratchet him with tooth and Nayle And so by art the Leoparde getteth the victory and not by strength The same Leopard also saith Plinie séeketh after the broode of the wild gote entending therewith to recouer his health Of Lynx the beast LYnx in face is like to the Lion in bodie bespotted like the Panther his vrine is of that set or nature that it turneth by and by into a precious stone which we before called Ligurius He so enuieth man and would that he should not be the better for this that he hideth and couereth his vrine with dust yearth to the intent that no man should find it but Plinie saith it is so much the better in his effect working Of the Lyon THe Lyon in his greeke vocable and worde is interpreted King he is reported to be the King ouer all other beastes There are diuers of this kind ▪ they only differing in their Mane eyther long or short His strength is in his hed His vertue in his heart he sléepeth as the Hare doth with eielids vnshut When he awaketh forth out of sléepe he rubbeth out the print of his bodie and steps least the huntesman espying them should easily finde him out He is verie gentle to man neuer hurteth him vnlesse he be greatly iniuried by him or that he is throughly an hūgry He knoweth sayth Plinie when the Lyonesse hath played him false play and hath played the Aduoutresse with the Libard by a certaine rammish smel or sweate which ariseth of them both Yet if she washeth hir selfe throughly she may deceyue him Aristotle sayth that the Lionesse at the first birth or broode bringeth forth most of hir yong then after that she lesseneth euerie broode one For at the first she bringeth forth fiue at the second time foure at the thirde time thrée at the fourth time two at the fift one and euer after that she is sterill and barraine Of their remembrance of a good turne I néede not speake or howe they haue done man a good turne one for another As that which had a thorne in hir Claw being holpen of one named Androdus eased thereof euen when as he through enuie was deliuered vp to be punished throwē into hir Denne that Lionesse that he eased so before did then well remember him As also I néede not to speak how God oftentimes brideleth in all beastes deuouring whatsoeuer to shew his pleasure and possibilitie what he can doe and worke by meanes of these There was a fierce hungrie Lyon let loose to Darius the Martyr which not onely hurt him not but also preserued him from the crueltie of other brute beastes As likewise Daniell scaped scotchfrée by Gods prouidence turning the fierce countenaunce of that Lion that his enimies had thought would haue soone deuoured him into a fawning and chearefull looke not once hauing power to hurt him Hamo a Carthagien borne is first reported to haue tamed the Lion Memnonides or the Birdes of Aegypt MEmnonides or the Birdes of Aegypt are named of the place where Memnon the Sonne of Thiton which came to the aide and rescewing of the Troians died and is buried They are saide to flie by companies out of Aegypt to olde Troie to Memnon his Sepulchre and to be onely his memoriall and are therefore called of some the Troian Memnonides as Isidore recordeth in his .xij. Booke Euerie fift yeare they flie to Troie and flie about Priam his Pallace and that two whole dayes space the thirde day they make battaile betwene themselues and doe torment and slea one another with their sharpe nayles beck Of the Moth. THe Moth is our Garment worme and by his latine worde is called Tinea holdefast for it biding in one place in the Garment neuer leaueth it til it be gnawen and eaten forth thorow Isidore saith it mought be named Pertinax peruerse for

in Gréeke is called Perkae with the Germanes Ein Bersig with the Frenchmen Perche some think that it is called Parca by Antiphrasis signifying another thing then the worde sheweth For with whome soeuer she is angrie she woundeth him with hir ●innes or if she can not come by him they are sure to haue it that are next to hir There is hereof both Male and Female But they haue their difference for the Male hath his ●innes red the Female hath not so Lonicer sayth that when as the fish Lucius is hurte or sore wounded of any other kinde and can not helpe hir selfe she seeketh out the Pearch which so soone as she sées him she toucheth and suppleth his woundes and so is she healed It is a fishe of verie tender meate or flesh As Ausonius recordeth of hir thus Nec te delitias mensarum Parca silébo Amongst the kindes of delicate meates the Perch I would haue spred Whose flesh so soft and morsell sweete in all feastes is the hed Of the Puttock THe Puttock sayth Isidore got his name of his soft flight Miluus sayth he is quasi mollis soft of flight It is one of the rauenous sort making hauock of the small birds Tullie in his second booke De natura Deorum saith that the Puttock and the Rauen or Crowe be at naturall enmitie togither Insomuch that one of them when they may come by them breaketh anothers Egges Aelianus thinketh that the Male in this kinde is seldome or neuer séene Insomuch that the Female stretching hirselfe along and conuersant toward the East and south conceiueth so bringeth forth yong They also beare a continuall hatred to the Fox Of the Pye THe Pie is reckned Mars his bird It had his Latin name first of Pycus Saturnes sonne which in his prophesying and soothsaying vsed this birde as Ouid witnesseth By Gréeke name he is called the Okes griefe for that with his Bill he pecketh maketh hollow the Oke with such daylie accustoming In one and the selfe same day he chaungeth his tune Of Rhinoceros RHinoceros in Gréeke is interpreted horned beast or Monoceron and is englished the Vnicorne Plinie in his .viij. booke saith that his Horne is set aboue his nostrils His continuall strife is with the Elephant vseth to defend himself thus Whē he seeith his enimie come he whetteth his Horne against sharpe stones then setteth on and in his fight wardeth and foyneth at the Elephant his bellye the most tender part that he hath and so riddeth him Of Rinatrix the Serpent RInatrix is a Serpent which with enuenoming poysoneth the water so that into what cleare Fountaine or Riuer he swimmeth he infecteth it as Lucane witnesseth Rinatrix violator Aquae c. The Rinatrix of Serpents kinde and the poysonous Snake With intermedling doth infect eche Pond and euerie Lake Of the Salamander THe Salamander as Plinie saith is like the Lyzard in face and countenaunce He infecteth the fruites of Trees and corrupteth the waters so that whosoeuer drinketh thereof dyeth by and by He liueth onely in the fire and is nothing hurt through the fire his flame Of the Salmon THe Riuer Rhenus and Rhodanus in this kinde doe alone excell The fishe it selfe is big and fat His meate or flesh is red in tast verie swéete the Germanes call it Ein Salmen The Frenchmen Saulmon Plinie in his .ix. booke and .xviij. Chapter preferreth hir before all those Sea fishes which accustome to Aquitania the floud which are many and great and reckned daintie Of the Scorpion THe Scorpion is a Serpent of the earth stinging deadly with his taile and of some is called flatering worme for faire face shewed and friendly countenaunce But if any man come neare hir behinde she payéth him home Plinie sayth that it bringeth forth yong sometime seauen at once whereof the Dam eateth vp fiue of them but the other the wisest of them get about their Mothers backe and buttocks and so bite hir This kind sleaeth his parents and hath onelye care to reuenge their Brothers quarrell and in that point Nature well prouided that their should be no great multiplying in so perilous a stocke and kind Orion when as he had made that boast that the earth shoulde bring forth no suche Monster but he would kill it the earth it selfe cast vp such a Scorpiō as slue him in the presence of the people with most sharpe sting Of the Silkeworme THe Silkeworme is the Trée or his braunches worme by whose web weauing silkes are made She is called Bombix for that she leaueth nothing in hir bellie but emptie ayer whilest she is about spinning of hir thréede Of the Sole THe Sole Varro calleth Lingulaca for his great sound The Frenchemen Sole It is a kinde of fish all plaine of verie soft meate or flesh and easie to digest Of the Sow THe Sow is called Sus of wrooting vp the clots of the yearth with hir beake or snoute She beareth saith Plinie somtime foure somtime fiue at once sometime moe but cannot bring them all wel vp and therefore eateth vp some of them it hath bene sene that she hath eaten vp all hir broode saue onely the oldest whome she most entierly loueth and him shée féedeth most often giueth him or hir the best teate As Aristotle saith Of the Shoueler THe Shoueler is called Platalea sayth Tullie he getteth his meate with flight had to those birds that déeuing downe to the waters to ketch fish drowne themselues or if any come out with any pray he méeteth them presseth their heades till they let go that which they haue caught Of the Sparrow THe Sparrow is called Passer a Paruitate of small or little quantitie Tullie in his Diuination saith that they should be in those kindes that are noted to prognosticate for saith he that kinde of diuination which is marked by euent or animaduersion is not naturall but artificiall of these some be perceiued to be done by sodain coniecture as Calcas with Homer which through a certaine number of smal Sparrowes prophesied and diuined before of the Citie of Troie his siege It is in his kinde very lasciuious and rioting It flieth in his extremity alwaies to man for helpe Seuerus the Abbat had a Sparrow that for feare came flying to rescue him into his handes was glad to take meate at his hands he reaching it him Of Stellio STellio the starred and speckled beast saith Plinie liueth most by the dew of Heauen and spirite of the earth And all his best iolytie is in coun●erfayting colours yet for all that is venemous Of the Swallow THe Swallow saith Aristo in his sixe booke de Animalibꝰ maketh hir nest bréedeth twise in the yeare and that is done so artificially as man cannot deuise to better it Isidore saith that he is so named for eating his meate as he flieth about in the ayre or for often turning and retire had to one and the same place Aristotle saith in the same