Volume 2

The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson.

  • John Gerard
Date:
1633
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Credit: The herball or, generall historie of plantes / Gathered by John Gerarde ... Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    16/1730
    In GERARDT Botanologian . PEpwrupcove ; Ltinms ecce Gerardus : at edit an optimus berbas ? ! Quid ni ? non notas fed dedit ille novas. | Ergo ne inuideas, videas cum nomen cy omen | qrmaby, Mira eff ardia quanta Cerib. Ol ne VAY IRE SE Tey Tee Bre PAITEL TES yette eT’ HASH Sic liber eft promus, condus vt hortus erat. Et yao epi columaque foluma, fubecit. . , Te y apes avto'ac ce peaedy 633 ye pera | ANTONIVS HVNTONVS, Medicine candidatys. 4d Tohannem Gerardum Chirurgum Herbari. uing,, peritifimum, ‘Vila oculos hominum fpecies magisallicit illa, Quam, preeftante manu duxit generofus Apelles, Nulla aures animofque magis facundia, quam qux Se fufam loquitur Ciceronis ab ore diferci: Hee eadem hunclibrum commendat caufa, Gerarde, Cui pro laude fatistali nacum effe parente, Artifices cat inter dextras pro numine,nomen Nobilius reliquis herbz, plantq ;magiftris. Illi etenim Europx fuccos, Afigque liquores Quequearentefolo fitiens parit Africa,tratant s Tu-vererum inuentis noua confuis omnia,fi qua Indus veerque dedit noftram fotura falucem, | Sive aliunde vehit noftras mercator ad oras, | Hocipfo vtilius.Quia que funt credita {criptis, Tilamanu expertus medico,& bene diues ab horto Explorata diu muleumq;emittis in auras, ; Que curenthominum languentia corpora, multi Praeftantelq; viridocuere fideliter artem. Sed fi fuftuleris plantas,quem verba iuvabunt | SSS Sicanimo,ficfronte minax.In przlia miles Profilic,at {tri€to ‘cedie viGtoria ferro Que tibi pro tanto cedit vidteria ferro Premia perfoluet,Myrtilauriq; coronas ? ]ftam nouit edax mercedem abolere vetuftas. Ac tibi pro ftudio impenfifque laboribus iftis, Queis hominam curas fercam tectama; falutem, Ille opifex rerum,cuftofq; authorg ;falutis ‘Eterna ftacuic frontem redimire corona. G.Laaneus Medicus. on) | a In biStoriam plantarum, 1o.Gerardi cinis & (1 hirurgi Londinenfit, | M. Jacobi Lhonftonij Scott Balliinerife Regy pagi portie- b - nary Epigramma, [) Ffine, que vaftis pomaria montibus Atlas Clauferat(Hefperij munera rara foli) Auratis folijs auratos define ramos Mirari,& ramis pendula poma fuis, Singula cum Domino periere,& Gorgone vifo . In montis riguit vefcera verfus Aclas. Aleinoi perijt qui,cedat penfilis hortus, Quen celebrac prifci temporis aurafugax : Vna Gerardini f{pecies durabilis horts AEterno fame marmore fculpta manet. Hic guicquid Zephyrus produxit,quicquid & Eurus, Antiquus quicquid & novus orbis habet, Jnculic in patriam naturamq; exprimicarte : Sic nullo cedit tetra Britanna folo.
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