Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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TO THE
MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY
PRINCE CHARLES,
By the Grace of God,
King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,
Defender of the Faith, &c.
May it pleaſe Your Moſt Excellent Majesty,
THe vvhole Body of the Natural
Hiſtory, either deſigned or vvrit-
ten, by the late Lord Viſcount
S.
Alban, vvas dedicated to Your
Majeſty, in his Book De Ventis, about
Four years paſt, vvhen Your Majeſty vvas
Prince:
So as there needed no nevv Dedica-
tion of this Work, but onely in all humble-
neſs, to let Your Majeſty knovv, it is Yours.
It is true, if that Lord had lived, Your Ma-
jeſty, erelong had been invoked to the Pro-
tection of another Hiſtory, vvhereof, not
Natures Kingdom, as in this;
but theſe

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