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I Am bold to present to your Honour a short contemplation of those Herbs, (cut in rough pieces) which grow really and plentifully in your own Garden: and give so good nourishment to your virtues, delightful taste to the Church, and odoriferous savour to all; that, like the Vine in Jotham's Parable, they cheer the heart of both God & man. Your Honour, I •now, cannot dislike that in sight, which you so preserve in sense, and (for a happy reward) doth and shall preserve you. You are zealously honoured of all those that know goodness; and have daily as many prayers, as the earth Saints. Into this number I have (hopefully presuming) thrust myself; as loth to be hindmost in that acknowledgement, which is so nobly deserved, and so joyfully rendered of all tongues: dedicating to your Honour some public devotions, that can ⟨image 3⟩never forget you in my private. I will not think of adding one Herb to your store: I only desire to remember your Honour what hand planted them, what dew waters them, what influence conserves, and enspheres a sweet provident air about them: and when gay weeds, that shoot up like Jonah gourd in a night, shall wither in an hour, (for moriuntur, quomodo oriuntur) Your Herb of Grace shall flourish & be praised, both ob eminentiam, and permanentiam; and at last be transported into that heavenly Paradise, whence it receives the originary root and being. Your Honour will excuse me for coupling to a Divine Herbal, a Forrest of Thorns; by a true observation in both material and mystical Gardens, though a Poet records it.

I Am bolde to present to your Honour a short contemplation of those Herbes, (cut in rough pieces) which grow really and plentifully in your owne Garden: and giue so good nourishment to your vertues, delightfull taste to the Church, and odoriferous sauour to all; that, like the Vine in Iothams Parable, they cheare the heart of both God & man. Your Honour, I •now, cannot dislike that in sight, which you so preserue in sense, and (for a happy reward) doth and shall preserue you. You are zealously honour'd of all those that know goodnesse; and haue dayly as many prayers, as the earth Saints. Into this number I haue (hop•fully presuming) thrust myselfe; as loth to bee hindmost in that acknowledgement, which is so nobly deserued, and so ioyfully rendred of al tongues: dedicating to your Honour some publicke deuotions, that can